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

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

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.

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

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

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