Joanna Weiss is a writer in Boston and the editor of Experience magazine, published by Northeastern University. In ordinary years, a political convention is a loosely made for television event ...

The symbol — held aloft on the floor — immediately stood out to David Hume Kennerly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was shooting the convention for POLITICO Magazine.

Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio and, more recently, Texas Governor Greg Abbott have each proposed calling an Article 5 constitutional convention (a convention of the states).

while Vice President Joe Biden captured the cover of New York Magazine Monday, the day before the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Charlotte, N.C. The Obama Parade profile follows a ...