The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

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

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

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

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.