Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

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.

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

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

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

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.