Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission resumed work yesterday, a month after the Commission was thrown into disarray when Gov. Jan Brewer and State Senate Republicans launched a full frontal
The U.S. Senate defeated an amendment on Tuesday that would have stripped the pending defense spending bill of language that critics charge would allow the U.S. military to
A new ballot initiative, painstakingly written by a pair of Stanford University law professors, seeks to reform the Three Strikes Law in California by restoring it to its original intent,
Usually clashing over the state budget, both the California Teachers Association (CTA) and the California Republican Party have taken aim at a recently introduced proposal put forth by the Think
When faced with difficult problems that pose unclear solutions, we often delegate the duty of governing to our politicians. But, over the past several years, it has become increasingly clear
On November 21st, the Libertarian Party of California, the Peace and Freedom Party of California, and the Green Party of Alameda County joined a handful of voters and third party
Our ignorance of the budget has made the challenge of deficit reduction nearly intractable. What we don’t know is a gaping hole in our psyches that is filled daily
Americans torn between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street would back an independent for President
The polarization of the two parties has left a wide open gap in the
Over long periods, the involvement of the public in planning or implementation of public policy has been quite marginal. This is a business-run society. The political parties have reflected
Just a week after President John Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson addresses Americans on Thanksgiving Day, 1963:
“All of us have lived through 7 days that none of us will
