Washington, DC, USA. Half of the eight governorships Democrats are trying to hold are open because of term limits or retirements. Republicans are losing only one incumbent.

The race for New Hampshire governor has the hallmarks of the biggest gubernatorial races this fall: heavy involvement from outside groups, a national contest stealing the spotlight and messages that echo themes from this year’s presidential campaigns.

Washington, DC, USA. Freedom of religion is a universal American ideal, but what provokes argument is the question of just what religious liberty means.

Lurking below surface agreement is a complex and highly charged conflict about the role of religion in public life.

Boston, MA, USA. “Right-to-die” advocates have mounted a high-profile initiative campaign in what might seem to be unlikely territory: heavily Catholic Massachusetts.

On Election Day, voters in the Bay State will consider whether to approve the Death With Dignity Act, a measure that would make Massachusetts just the third state in the country to formally approve physician-assisted suicide.

Lancaster, PA, USA. The endless campaign, also known as the 2012 American presidential election, isn’t quite ending yet. But as Churchill might have put it, we have at least reached the beginning of the end.

With less than 90 days until Election Day, the party conventions are almost upon us and the fall debates not far behind.

Fairfax, VA, USA. Summers come, summers go, but the summer reading list is forever and I recline on the edge of somnolence, roused by our books waiting to be shelved or boxed away.

This is a partial list of my summer reading. It doesn’t include a dozen or more e-books I have read or any book I may have re-read. It doesn’t even include every non-e-book I have started and finished.