Today, our live updates blog (which you can read here) will keep you up to speed on all the important developments of Election Day. With such a cascade of news, we wanted to make sure you had a place to go for news you could trust.

As I think about this moment, I decided to take a step back and look at how, some 230 years ago, one of the American founders was considering deeply the question facing American voters today – and what that means for the road ahead. You can read the column here.