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The cheering, clapping and speechifying are over. Historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have returned after their trips to the 2024 political party conventions to collect materials – from balloons to banners to blinking wristbands – at each of them. For the last in a series of…

Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election not only failed, but some of them also rested on a misreading of the U.S. Constitution, as our new analysis argues. The relevant constitutional provision dates back to just after the Civil War, and contemporaries recognized it as…

Women have been running for president of the United States since 1872, and for almost that long people have been asking what women need to do in order to break what Hillary Clinton has called the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” left in American culture.

As former president fails to land attacks against Harris campaign, advisers hope to capitalize on upcoming debate

A former GOP aide says she intervened on company's behalf even though she thought it was inappropriate

Former president has sparked fury after he was, firstly, captured posing with his thumbs up and smiling at a soldier’s grave and, secondly, two of his campaign staffers were accused of verbally abusing and pushing a cemetery official

Democratic nominee and running mate Tim Walz sit with CNN’s Dana Bash in interview to be broadcast Thursday

EXCLUSIVE: Democrats in Michigan and Wisconsin have erected billboards highlighting Trump’s potential cost to Americans in a second term ahead of visits by the ex-president

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to sit with anchor Dana Bash on Thursday after weeks of demands from Republicans to take questions

The party that once boasted of taking the ‘high road’ now feels more rough-and-tumble. Maybe that’s a good thing

Donald Trump controls his followers by convincing them to reject basic reality, even the most banal parts