As President Trump delivers his remarks to Congress, we must remember that the state of the union is on us. All of us. Skye L. Perryman is president and CEO of Democracy Forward, a nonpartisan ...

But despite the pomp and circumstance of the address, it's not technically a "State of the Union" speech. That's because a State of the Union address is intended as a look back on the prior year.

It looks like the State of the Union, and will be carried on live television, just like those annual addresses are. But it’s called something else: a joint address to Congress. And it has its ...