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Byline: David Maraniss DETROIT - Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's secretary of state, had just concluded an election night news conference at Ford Field extolling the virtues of the vote when she [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CHICAGO - Jesse Jackson sat in a wheelchair near the back wall of a darkened restaurant at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was late Thursday morning, [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CHICAGO - Doris Johnson and Stacey Johnson-Batiste huddled backstage at the United Center on Monday night, preparing to deliver their mother-daughter duet of a convention speech, when [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CHICAGO - Imagine seeing Lyndon B. Johnson, if he had still been alive more than three decades after winning his first Democratic presidential nomination, striding to the [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CHICAGO - Imagine seeing Lyndon B. Johnson, if he had still been alive more than three decades after winning his first Democratic presidential nomination, striding to the [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CHICAGO - The Ukrainian Village, a neighborhood nestled only a mile north and slight jog west of the United Center, where Democrats are convening this week, is [...]

Byline: David Maraniss MILWAUKEE - The conversations went round and round at the barbershop here in the heart of the north-side neighborhood of Bronzeville. Joe Biden is too old. But [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Swap the P for a V and the e for an a and there you have it. Not Pence this time but Vance. There was a sign [...]

Byline: David Maraniss MILWAUKEE - The convention history of Shawn Steel began exactly 60 years ago this week when he hitched a ride from Van Nuys in California's San Fernando [...]

Byline: David Maraniss RIPON, Wis. - The distance between Ripon 1854 and Milwaukee 2024 seems far greater than 86 miles or 170 years. It was in this small Wisconsin town, [...]

Byline: David Maraniss and Sally Jenkins His wrestlers at Ohio State called him Jimmy and idolized him as an Olympic-level legend in their ancient sport. During the nine seasons that [...]

Byline: David Maraniss and Sally Jenkins On the first day of classes at North Little Rock High, a crew-cut sophomore named Jerral Wayne Jones found his spot among a phalanx [...]

Byline: David Maraniss This story is adapted from 'Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.' - - - For 20 long years after Jim Thorpe signed a contract [...]

Byline: David Maraniss On the third Wednesday in January, after a first Wednesday of insurrection and a second of impeachment, came an inauguration that promised to be unlike any in [...]

Byline: David Maraniss For Print Use Only. My first baseball memories are from the summer of 1954. I was 5, and my family had moved from Detroit to Cleveland, from [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden - two presidents and the older guy who somehow outlasted them into the virtual age. When Biden was first elected [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden - two presidents and the older guy who somehow outlasted them into the virtual age. When Biden was first elected [...]

Byline: David Maraniss I had no idea how old Alice Mayhew was until the day she died. Most of her writers, if not all of them, were equally clueless about [...]

Byline: David Maraniss The spectacle of men and women at President Donald Trump's rally in North Carolina on Wednesday chanting 'Send her back!' depressed me so much that I could [...]

Byline: David Maraniss In the 34 years of my life, in war and peace, I have been a loyal, law-abiding citizen of the United States. One week after this nation [...]

Byline: David Maraniss There was only one Aretha, but, in her case, the first-name recognition evoked so much more than pop celebrity. Aretha was not a manufactured image like many [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Few Americans knew the voters who rejected Hillary Clinton better than her husband. He lived among them growing up, and then studied them with a fanatical intensity [...]

Byline: David Maraniss At the start of the final weekend stretch of this long political season, Hillary Clinton bounced onto a stage in South Florida and proclaimed, 'Every day in [...]

Byline: David Maraniss At the start of the final weekend stretch of this long political season, Hillary Clinton bounced onto a stage in South Florida and proclaimed, 'Every day in [...]

Byline: David Maraniss As the final act of the night, at a few minutes before 11, President Barack Obama made his way to the podium in his cool and easy [...]

Byline: David Maraniss As the final act of the night, minutes before 11 o'clock, President Barack Obama made his way to the podium in his cool and easy basketball-player gait, [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Four years ago it was Bill Clinton bailing out Barack Obama, delivering a speech in Charlotte that explained the Obama presidency and framed the issues against the [...]

Byline: David Maraniss As he stood at the lectern last night, Bill Clinton was doing more than delivering another convention speech, something he has done every four years spanning four [...]

Byline: David Maraniss As he stood at the lectern last night, Bill Clinton was doing more than delivering another convention speech, something he has done every four years spanning four [...]

Byline: David Maraniss There has never been a speech quite like the one Bill Clinton will deliver in Philadelphia, no matter what he says. A husband speaking on behalf of [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Somewhere on their 12-hour car trip up the interstate from Columbia, South Carolina, to Philadelphia, William Bilton, a former prosecutor with an infectious personality, turned to his [...]

Byline: David Maraniss As the Democratic National Convention unfolds in Philly this week, the scene will be dominated once again by three familiar faces. Bill, Barack and Hillary are not [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CLEVELAND - Donald Trump and his people were trying to make something here in Cleveland this week, but precisely what seemed unclear, despite the themes they laid [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CLEVELAND -- Donald Trump and his people were trying to make something here in Cleveland this week, but precisely what seemed unclear, despite the themes they laid [...]

Byline: David Maraniss The Rev. Thomas Chulak had this idea come over him as he was driving down to Cleveland from a Sleep Inn 50 miles away for the second [...]

Byline: David Maraniss CLEVELAND - On the floor of the Q, way in a back corner, about as far from the power podium as they could put her, Kendal Unruh [...]

Byline: David Maraniss The week of Trump and Pence. It seems it had to be. Did Trump not once say he had a thing for short last names, since they [...]

Byline: David Maraniss When Barack Obama worked as a community organizer amid the bleak industrial decay of Chicago's far South Side during the 1980s, he tried to follow a mantra [...]

Byline: David Maraniss When Barack Obama worked as a community organizer amid the bleak industrial decay of Chicago's far South Side during the 1980s, he tried to follow a mantra [...]

Byline: David Maraniss and Robert Samuels To reach the heart of the matter in Michigan on a late-winter evening, navigate out of downtown Detroit and drive 20 miles north on [...]

Byline: David Maraniss and Robert Samuels Where else to pick up but in Las Vegas, our nation's great national cliche, more excessive in its hyperbole than the boasts in a [...]

Byline: David Maraniss and Robert Samuels When Mary Beth Walz picked up a shovel and started to clear the pathway in front of the home of 92-year-old Doris Eriksson - [...]

Byline: David Maraniss and Robert Samuels So much anger out there in America. Anger at Wall Street. Anger at Muslims. Anger at trade deals. Anger at Washington. Anger at police [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Here it comes again, for the 50th time. If the NFL already owns one day of the week, as the actor Albert Brooks says in the movie [...]

Byline: David Maraniss One of the most compelling American athletes of the 20th century died last week. Odds are that you have not heard of Dave Sime. He never played [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Several hours after the third Super Bowl ended, Vince Lombardi, who had coached the winning team in the first two but watched this one from the stands, [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Several hours after the third Super Bowl ended, Vince Lombardi, who had coached the winning team in the first two but watched this one from the stands, [...]

Byline: David Maraniss Big John, he was called, even in his 80s, long after he had shrunk from his once-imposing 6-foot-3 hulk and had also lost much of his power, [...]