Nothing is less American than political parties. As a country, we fancy ourselves a meritocracy staffed by conscientious and well-informed voters.
But that can’t possibly be true so
Just before Thanksgiving, I received a call out of the blue from a friend of Oz Griebel, a well-known and very respected business leader in Connecticut, and a Republican.
“I didn’t change, the system changed. This system is terribly broken.”
That’s what Colorado State Senator Cheri Jahn wrote in her announcement on Friday, declaring that she’s
In the wake of the Republican tax reform bill, which has been hailed by supporters as the most significant revision to the federal tax code in 30 years, many Democratic
The countdown to 2018 has finished and Washington has snapped its head in the direction of another countdown: the mid-term elections in November.
In just eleven months, the balance
Every day, 122 young undocumented immigrants who were raised in this country and are known as Dreamers, are losing their legal protection, their livelihood, and their liberty because Congress has
In the last week of 2017, the Washington Post published an article highlighting perhaps the biggest winner from the the new GOP tax plan: accountants.
The bill’s passage on
A largely ignored development at year-end 2017 was the story that the Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein’s campaign is under senate investigation for collusion with Russia.
American voters who have remained in the two-party system are more partisan than ever before and they're saying so in public opinion polls every year:
"Surveys
PIERRE, S.D. – On December 29th, the South Dakota Voter Protection and Anti-Corruption Amendment was certified as Amendment W for the November 2018 ballot by Secretary of State Shantel
Maine legislators first delayed and set a popular ballot initiative -- ranked choice voting -- up for repeal because they didn't like what voters wanted. Now, new measures from the
John E Palmer