Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

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

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

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

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

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

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