comprehending

To Cobb, that moment proved the import of works like “One Person, One Vote” that aid citizens in comprehending our democracy’s structure.

You don’t realize how complicated comprehending speech can be until your hearing abilities are compromised.

You don’t realize how complicated comprehending speech can be until your hearing abilities are compromised.

Comprehending its long-term ramifications for American politics, by contrast, is a much simpler matter: It demonstrated that presidential debates can single-handedly and massively alter the course of human history.

To get back to vibes and dime-store psychology — excellent tools for comprehending American political behavior — elections in our ludicrous binary system are often decided less by which party wants to win than by which one is not-so-secretly determined to lose.