Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.