In the United States, every citizen over the age of 18 has the right to vote a congressman or congresswoman into office to represent the interests of his or her
As many readers of IVN may already know, 43% of American voters self-identify as independents, and that number looks like it's going to continue to climb.
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Level the Playing Field, a group pushing to open up the presidential debates to an independent candidate, filed an historic lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court. The lead plaintiffs
The P5+1 nations are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (China, France, Russia, U.K., and U.S.), plus Germany.
These nations represent an enormous
It's not even 2016 yet and the race to be the next President of the United States has already delivered some memorable punchlines. The GOP field is getting
Since the movement launched in 2006, National Popular Vote has made significant progress to reform the way Americans elect their president.
The group's plan involves a state-by-
It's graduation season and while colleges are advertising pictures of happy graduates in caps and gowns on their websites, there is one distinctive feature about the class of
By way of introduction, I’m Jeff Marston, co-chair of the Independent Voter Project.
Starting today and every couple of weeks I’m going to be sending out these
There has been yet another mass murder using a gun in the U.S., and now we have the inevitable reiteration of the arguments for and against ‘gun control.’ To
In 1636, my 11th-great-grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founded the colony of Connecticut and contributed greatly to the ideas of constitutional government and universal Christian suffrage in colonial
Another racist tragedy reminds us that 150 years after the end of the civil war, America still has a minority that it has failed to integrate, with fatal consequences.
Although
We are starting to hear ritualistic grumblings from the Federal Reserve that they are preparing to raise interest rates, in order to stave-off inflation. And yet, anyone who buys
