Paul Ryan, roundly supported as the GOP choice for vice president in 2012 by conservatives and tea party advocates, has received a primary opponent for his first congressional district seat.
Imagine a president with the authority to indefinitely detain you without due process, indiscriminately bomb countries without congressional authorization, possess the launch codes to 5,113 nuclear warheads, snoop on
The Latino community is one of the fastest growing communities in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center. This means that not only are Latino voters reshaping social
The Maine Democratic Party is officially the first Democratic Party to severely reduce the influence of superdelegates in the presidential nomination process. The amendment, proposed by state Rep. Diane Russell
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State officials on Friday accepted a truckload of Independent Map Amendment petitions with nearly twice the minimum number of signatures needed to put
As events from this past week portray, there is a growing divide between the leadership within the two major political parties and members of the American public.
While other establishment
Just about everyone these days seems to be either overcome with fear or anger in this election cycle, and for good reasons. It might not be pretty, but that'
The hardest part of getting people to adopt a new paradigm concerning anything of any import and complexity is getting them to unlearn their old one. A paradigm comprises all
Senate Candidate Everett Stern identifies an all-consuming sense of apathy as one of the major problems facing America today. Apathy and cynicism, he says, have robbed citizens of their
As is the nature of a federal republic, all too often major presidential elections come down to just a handful of states. This year, it's beginning to look
“The land of the free and the home of the brave.” This is where Americans are told they live. Unfortunately, this is only partly true. “Freedom” is a broad term
In the aftermath of the departures of both U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio from the Republican presidential primary contest, the public’s
