Morris Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, discusses the cycle of overreach and backlash in our politics.

Morris P. Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses collective representation in US politics

Tonight lawmakers have to start over...

Forget the red-state, blue-state construct. . . .

Inclement political weather rocked President Obama and his party this summer...

Members of Congress — with the possible exceptions of Senator Robert C. Byrd and Representative John D. Dingell — come and go...

Congressional races tend to get second-billing during presidential election years; however the contests for the House and Senate on November 8 will be pivotal in shaping the political, economic and moral future of the United States.

Since the early years of this century, political commentators have told the American public that the country is coming apart. Although survey data indicates that majorities of the American public believe such claims, a sober look at the data reveals a more complex picture.

In state after state, as campaigns ramp up for this year's congressional elections, voter anger threatens to capsize the careers of lawmakers previously considered untouchable...