Donald Trump’s ongoing standoff with Ted Cruz and John Kasich could lead to the first contested convention in four decades. Or the first brokered convention in either party since 1952. Or would it be ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I was looking for a way to make history relevant to students. Since I research and teach a lot about U.S. politics, I decided to focus on presidential elections ...

With all the talk about the state of the Republican primary -- and the GOP establishment's efforts to stop the momentum of front-runner Donald Trump -- there's been lots of speculation about a ...

Donald Trump may be the Republican frontrunner, but it isn’t clear yet whether he’ll be able to lock up the nomination before the Republican National Convention this July. It takes a majority of ...

Reince Priebus no longer thinks a contested convention is a remote possibility. — -- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said he no longer thinks a contested convention is an extreme hypothetical and ...