Karl Rove and Frank Luntz might be the Republican operatives everyone recognizes, but this unknown state strategist ran the gerrymandering playbook starting in the 1970s.

Courts blocked the GOP from intimidating minority voters. Now Trump is trying again.

Just as past public policies created the racial wealth gap, current policy widens it.

Some say the Democrats flipped the script at last month's convention by recapturing the flag from Republicans. The thing is, writes Lynn Sherr, that stuff belongs to all of us.

An ode to Ike and Adlai.

Historian Nancy Isenberg talks about why Trump's message resonates with poor whites and what Bernie Sanders got wrong about this long-vilified group.

The Party's official worldview does not line up with that of voters.

America has been pondering the possibility of a female president for decades, but only now does it seem ready to elect one.

Michelle Obama's DNC speech reminds one young woman of the vision described in 1976 by the first African-American woman to keynote a major-party convention. Her words are relevant today.

History may not repeat itself exactly, but there's something eerily familiar about the DNC email leaks.