The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there’s no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We’re averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward...

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the...