The Kingdom of Clamor: A Fairy Tale of the Great American Congress
Once upon a time, in a marble-clad echo chamber nestled between monuments to forgotten wars and selectively remembered speeches, there stood a grand legislative cathedral. This was the Palace of Loud Intentions, a place where two houses—one of elders and one of adolescents with press passes—gathered daily to bicker, posture, and occasionally legislate, though mostly by accident. The people called…















