Taxpayers across the nation spent approximately $400 million to administer party elections last year. This public money was spent on partisan primaries.

The purpose of these primaries are to elect party

The Democratic 2012 Platform was released on Monday and some commentators have already highlighted that two noticeable words were absent: GOD and Jerusalem. Are there other things missing from the Democratic

The first part of this story covered the up-and-coming Republicans who are likely to run in 2016, should Gov. Romney lose. This two covers the Democrats.

If President Obama wins re-election, these 10

After a confusion, voluntary of not, over medical terminology, Arizona became the most restrictive state with a ban of abortion after 18 weeks of pregnancy.

The last version of the “Women Health and Safety Act”

Nevada ranks at the bottom for education and quality of life, and high for foreclosures and unemployment. It needs a renewed focus on education and libraries to turn things around because a well-educated

When the topic of drug policy is debated and discussed, the conversation is typically centered on the criminal justice aspect of drug prohibition– and for good reason.

As a result of drug prohibition

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POLITICO – Lance Armstrong Getting Help from Capitol Hill
The 7-time Tour de France champion has passed over 500 drug tests

Understanding the LIBOR scandal that has dominated financial news outlets these past weeks can be a challenge for most. Confidence in banks and what about this particular financial scandal is worth

The Supreme Court decision, announced early Thursday, upholding most of the controversial and politically-charged Affordable Care Act including the individual health insurance mandate, might actually be good

Former president Jimmy Carter in a recent New York Times op-ed titled ‘A Cruel and Unusual Record’ says the United States and specifically the Obama Administration is engaged in such widespread abuse of human

A recent IVN article, by contributor Ryan McLain, explains the current FDA guidelines on labeling the genetically modified foods (GMOs) that make it into our grocery stores. The senate failed to pass a bill

Four facts & four charts to help explain the June jobs report:

The unemployment rate was unchanged in June at 8.2%.
U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that

Last night, Rachel Maddow had FairVote.org chair and Nirvana bassist, Krist Novoselic on her show to discuss putting the power of elections back in the hands of voters. It’s an interesting interview and touches on

A new Field Poll out today shows President Obama with a considerable lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The Sacramento Bee’s Torey Van Oot has the details, including this interesting statistic:

Even

As today’s weak jobs report was released, Gallup has come out with its latest poll, which shows just 31% of Americans approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy.  This economic approval rating is the

The Bureau of Labor Statistics for the June jobs report paints a grim picture for the economy, with just 80,000 jobs added and a stagnant unemployment rate of 8.2%.

Kathy Bostjancic, director of macroeconomic

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The Atlantic – The DC Power Outage From Space
A before and after photo of the outage that still has 30,000 people without power.

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Last week the FBI released its preliminary crime statistics for the first six months of 2011. The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) figures show that “law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported a

Last Thursday the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in the crack pipeline case of Dorsey v. United States. The issue presented was whether the Fair Sentencing Act’s (the “FSA”) new, lower mandatory