The Atlantic's Andrew Cohen sat down with former Texas Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson to discuss the consequences of partisan judicial elections.
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As the debate on online privacy intensifies, Pew Internet & American Life Project, a project of Pew Research Center, recently
published a report on our behaviors and fears online.
Researching
Republican Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, introduced a Constitutional Amendment last week that would prohibit members of Congress from passing laws "applicable to a citizen of the United States
The vote to reopen the government and pass a temporary budget deal has shaped up to be possibly the most divisive vote of 2013. H.R. 2775, also called the
On Saturday, approximately 1,500 gun rights activists gathered at one of Texas' most sacred historical sites, the Alamo, in San Antonio to protest a city ordinance that bans
With our national debt at $17 trillion and growing and another crisis looming in January 2014, Congress and the White House must come together and find a way to either
Following the resolution of the 16-day government shutdown, U.S. Representative Justin Amash, a libertarian Republican representing Michigan's third district, has
acquired a primary challenger.
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Republicans and Democrats continue to shrink and the IPO has unusual fallback.
Monthly Trends: The month of September showed continued losses in membership for the Republican and Democratic Parties. The
Out of Washington, we tend to hear the same old stories. Republicans want to cut spending and not raise taxes. Democrats want to tax the rich and not let Republicans
Amid the shutdown-inspired talk of polarization and dysfunction in Congress, it is encouraging to see examples of real bipartisan cooperation. A group of twelve senators – six Republicans and six
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In the debate surrounding what electoral mechanisms will make for a more representative democracy, numerous systems have been proposed.
The American electoral system is highly dysfunctional. One of its most basic problems is that districts and states often have lopsided partisan preferences, meaning that general elections between the nominees
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