In an election year, political conventions take over the U.S. media, with political-party platforms and propaganda. But what real purpose do the conventions serve? And have they outlived their usefulness?
Long overlooked, Latino Democrats in California, Texas and around the country are invested in picking someone who can beat President Trump. And they could decide the 2020 race.
Joe Biden’s selection process for vice-president, which resulted in the choice of Kamala Harris, was reportedly extensive, involving as many as 15 attorneys scouring through the candidates’ pasts.
The four-day virtual event focused on character rather than policy. Still, Democrats exaggerated about Social Security, jobs and the coronavirus pandemic.
The state has disaster response down to a routine, ready to roll out whenever hurricanes and other bad weather strikes. But that coordination between state and local governments hasn't been the model for pandemic response.
Using tax dollars to move whole communities out of flood zones, an idea long dismissed as radical, is swiftly becoming policy, marking a new and more disruptive phase of climate change.
The decision comes a month after the Barbers Hill Independent School District board of trustees voted to keep the dress code policy, which advocates have deemed racist.
In Texas' major counties, almost 99% of mail-in ballots were counted during the July primary runoff election, a Tribune analysis shows. But election officials say postal service disarray and a record number of requests mean people should ask for their absentee ballots well before November's Election Day.
After being pushed back from July due to the pandemic, the all-virtual Democratic National Convention will take place next week, featuring speeches by Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden.
Ten years after the Supreme Court's historic decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, OpenSecrets is taking a look at the dramatic ways America's campaign finance system has been altered in the decade since.
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