The reporter’s people had been good citizens over the centuries, fought in the wars, built businesses, practiced law, founded a town, held office, shaped some policy, bought houses, taught school. But if he traced out their efforts and sacrifices, looking for lasting significance, he lost the trail every time, usually instantly, except […]
On the last evening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the reporter boarded a delegate bus for the United Center. As they waited to leave McCormick Place, the young man sitting next to him introduced himself as “a California delegate at the DNC” and said he had hoped to be asked […]
The second meeting of the Poverty Council at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week, titled “The Fierce Urgency of Now: How Democrats Can Win the Fight Against Poverty,” revealed another tension within the DNC. Susie Shannon, a California Health Commissioner and founder of the DNC Poverty Council opened the meeting […]
One of the more interesting parts of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week was the tensions that developed in the unacknowledged spaces between the show as an international marketing abstraction and the specific idealisms of various Americans. One example was in the second meeting of the Rural Council on Thursday, […]
That’s a wrap, as they say in the biz, or at least I assume that is what some 45-year old White guy with starched hair, skinny pants, and no socks said in DNC Global Media Headquarters after the balloon drop that ended the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago last night. […]
Tuesday there was a convention meeting for the DNC’s Veterans and Military Families Council, held at McCormick Place. Council Chair Terron Sims II, a West Point graduate and veteran, made introductory remarks on the power of veterans as a voting bloc. Veterans and their families make up eight percent of the national […]
The way that the DNC in Chicago works is that during the day there are delegation breakfasts, press briefings, and caucus and committee meetings at McCormick Place, the trade show venue on the lake. The caucus and committee meetings are for “special” interests, such as the Native American Caucus, Labor Council, Small […]
There is new energy in the previously moribund Democratic ticket. This was obvious from the moment President Joe Biden chose not to run for re-election, but it is doubly apparent at the end of the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz—maybe as important a […]
