The spotlight at the convention is a dramatic shift from just four years ago, another sign of how radically the politics of abortion have changed, and how much the party is relying on the issue to rally voters. Read full article

In a classified document approved in March, the president ordered U.S. forces to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea. Read full article

With a convention in Chicago and a Minnesotan on the ticket, Democrats suddenly can’t stop talking about the Midwest. We turned to our Illinois and Indiana natives to consider this development. Read full article

One student’s turbulent coming-out journey in the 1990s put Mr. Walz, then a football coach, at the center of gay rights in a Minnesota high school. Read full article

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential team relied on a super PAC for the signatures needed to get on the ballot in Arizona, according to people with knowledge of the operation. Read full article

Political campaigns are not required to disclose the names of their fund-raising “bundlers,” but many presidential candidates have done so in recent years. Read full article

Janet Diaz and Tameko Patterson barely knew each other before this year, but both had long journeys into the political arena. Now they are rooming together and representing their party in Chicago. Read full article

Kamala Harris’s decision to support Barack Obama in a 2008 primary race dominated by Hillary Clinton was a political risk. It paid off, and the former president never forgot it. Read full article

The city holds the record for hosting the most conventions and has been shaped by their outcomes. Read full article