The founders designed the House to be responsive to the public but the redistricting wars undermine that, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Ronald Brownstein writes.

Politicians may take back seat as a jumble of groups on both sides angle for voters' attention (and sometimes clash).

Jones’ combative speech took aim at a conservative legal society — and exposed tensions inside the High Court.

“The first man put at the helm will be a good one,” Benjamin Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention in June 1787, referring to George Washington. “No body knows what sort may come afterward.