It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.