Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

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.

Beer soothes the upset soul.

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

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

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