2008 was a historic year for young voters. After a steady increase in youth turnout between the 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential elections, the 2008 election was said to have
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government shutdown has been more common in recent years so there was a possibility, but there has always been a relatively quick fix to them -- pass a budget or
On Saturday, December 13, when people were likely more interested in the Army vs. Navy football game than what Congress was up to, the Senate passed the $1.1 trillion
"If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.” – Mark 3:25“Politics at its purest is philosophy in action” – Margaret Thatcher“Every
During the so-called lame duck session of Congress, a number of significant bills have passed with little or no debate. One was over
intelligence gathering and another increases sanctions
The $560 billion
2015 National Defense Authorization Act passed Congress recently, and the details of the bill have military families worried. In addition to the usual appropriations for aircraft, tanks,
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) raised fire and brimstone in her rebuke of the CIA on the Senate floor after the
CIA torture report summary was released to
With the release of the
CIA torture report this week, America is once again getting nothing but bad press about our involvement in the Middle East.
But what would historians
The GOP is flexing its budget muscles as party leaders in Congress try to prove they can handle the responsibility of legislating.
In light of retaking the Senate and winning
Discussions of the morality of torture have a bad habit of descending into a common game-theory scenario derived from the "Trolley Problem." It goes like this: imagine
Racism is everywhere, but it is hard to answer why, or to identify solutions.
Approaching the subject of racism is hard for a couple of reasons: there are no common
On Wednesday, December 10, Congress passed a bill called the "Intelligence Authorization Act for 2015." Not very many people have heard of this bill, much less its passage
