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

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

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

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

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.