Politics Aug 18 A look ahead to this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago By Amna Nawaz, Geoff Bennett, Laura Barrón-López, Harry Zahn, Shrai Popat
Nation Aug 18 Watch 8:58 A look back at the 1968 Democratic convention and its relevance today Chicago has hosted more presidential nominating conventions than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago occurred when divisions over the Vietnam War sparked major protests in the… By Judy Woodruff, Sarah Clune Hartman, Connor Seitchik, Frank Carlson
Politics Aug 16 Watch 7:00 How Chicago residents feel about the city’s response to a migrant surge Chicago, the city hosting the Democratic National Convention next week, has been at the center of the national conversation around U.S. immigration policy. Laura Barrón-López reports. By Laura Barrón-López, Sam Weber, Ryan Connelly Holmes
Politics Jul 23 CHART: Harris has backing of enough delegates to become Democratic presidential nominee, AP tally finds Prominent Democratic elected officials, party leaders and political organizations quickly lined up behind Harris in the day after Biden's exit from the race and her campaign set a new 24-hour record for presidential donations on Monday. By Zeke Miller, Leah Askarinam, Maya Sweedler, Chad Day, Associated Press
Politics Jul 13 What is a party platform? Here’s how they’re made and what you should pay attention to Though largely unread, political party platforms are a vital clue about which groups hold real power in the two major national parties and can help predict what the government will actually do. By Marjorie Hershey, The Conversation
Jul 12 These 3 Democrats didn’t do better than Biden in this poll against Trump. They also didn’t do any worse By Laura Santhanam More than half of U.S. adults think that neither President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump should lead their respective party’s White House tickets this year, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Continue reading
Jun 16 Why U.S. foreign policy may play a larger role at the 2024 national conventions By Jonathan Masters, Gopal Ratnam, Council on Foreign Relations Foreign policy issues regularly come to the fore at the national political conventions, especially during periods of global instability. Sometimes the events are marked by bitter disagreements within the parties. Continue reading
Sep 08 WATCH: President Biden delivers remarks at Democratic National Committee reception By Seung Min Kim, Associated Press In recent days, Biden has sharpened his attacks against Donald Trump and the so-called MAGA Republicans for posing a threat to democracy. He’s likened the philosophy undergirding the dominant strain of the modern-day GOP to “semi-fascism.”… Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch 5:02 NHWE Politics Recap: DNC victories and failures, Trump’s RNC plans By PBS NewsHour The Republican National Convention will kick off on Monday with some in-person events and a small group of delegates heading to Charlotte, North Carolina to rally support for President Trump, who in an unprecedented move is slated to speak every… Continue watching
Aug 21 Biden’s character, party unity on display on DNC Night 4 By Candice Norwood The final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention was decades in the making. Continue reading