2012 Conventions

Democratic delegates cheer as the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund speaks.

Leftward, ho!

Politics | Conservative leaders hope to call attention to the Democratic Party’s aggressive pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, but most Democrats don’t seem to mind

Truth, God, and Jerusalem at the DNC

Truth, God, and Jerusalem at the DNC

Politics |  In a speech resembling a TV re-run (the liberal website The Daily Beast called it "dull"), President Obama accepted his party's nomination for a second term.

Democratic National Convention in Charlotte

Festive follies

Politics |  With the changing political landscape, are national nominating conventions worth all the trouble and expense?

(Clockwise from top left) Nancy Pelosi, Sandra Fluke, John Lewis, and Kerry Washington

What’s the story?

Politics |  Inauguration Day of 1829 was one for the history books. It followed a vicious, mud-slinging campaign that cost the life of the victor's wife, or at least…

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Globe Trot 09.07

International |  It's an afternoon trot, with my focus today on Democrats and the Jewish vote, after this week's flap over platform language on Israel at the Democratic…

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The Israel question

Foreign Policy |  By parrying over their party platform this week, Democrats add to the confusion over U.S. policy in the Middle East

Pro-abortion protesters in Charlotte

Signs and Wonders 09.07

Newsworthy |  Conventions compared. The 2012 political conventions are now in the books, and the substantive differences between the two major parties have rarely been…

'More than a few years'

'More than a few years'

Politics |  In his convention acceptance speech, President Obama asks for a second term while telling voters change is slow

Pat McCrory
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Non-Republican Republican

Politics |  Charlotte's Pat McCrory turned the city around long before Democrats got there

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A radical Democratic platform

Politics |  And more news briefs

Romney campaigning  in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Getting personal

Politics |  Republicans hope to counter months of relentless attacks against Mitt Romney's character by presenting their candidate as a likable family man

RNC speakers Condoleezza Rice; Luis Fortuno; Mia Love; Susan Martinez; Brian Sandoval; Nikki Haley; Ted Cruz; Marco Rubio; Jane Edmonds (from top left to bottom right)
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Beyond the base

Politics |  In a dead even presidential race, Mitt Romney is trying to draw minority and women voters away from President Obama

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