Beer soothes the upset soul.

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

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

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.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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