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No Order in the Court
On September 6, 2021, Alan Braid, a seventy-six-year-old OBGYN in San Antonio, Texas, performed an abortion on a woman in her first trimester. A few years ago, this procedure would have attracted litt...
CA Recall Election: Should Newsom Stay or Should He Go?
September 14, 2021 is the day California voters decide the fate of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in a special recall election, only the fourth ever held in the US. Absentee ballots were due out by ...
The Media Has To Stop Worshipping A Partisan-Controlled Elections Process
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in the Portland Press Herald and has been republished on IVN by request and with permission from the author. Greg Kesich’s July 25 column in the Por...
California: A Voting Rights Catalyst or Dinosaur?
Depending on what news station you watch, you might think that one party is the savior and the other, the enemy, of our sacred right to vote.But what if a larger battle is being waged to secure our ri...
The 4 Biggest Myths About The Two-Party Duopoly
Former Gehl Foods CEO and founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, Katherine Gehl, has 4 myths about US politics to bust. Think the system is broken, as in not working the way it w...
Vermont Sets An Example for Bipartisan Vote-By-Mail Expansion
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher. While much of the country's election reform legislation has been rife with ...
How Cats Can Help Fix Politics -- No, Seriously
Bess Truman famously said “if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” Well, even though I’m a dog person myself, cats might just hold the key to fixing our politics. Let me explain why.If you’ve ...
We Have To Break the Long History of Minority Rule in the US
It has become popular on the Left to ascribe Republicans’ recent attempts to change voting laws as anti-democratic, even potentially criminal. There are those, such as Paul Waldman at the Washin...
Video: Partisan Primaries Are Our Primary Problem
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from The Fulcrum.Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America, was recently featu...
Bill To Give Parties Control over Congressional Primaries in Louisiana Dropped
The movement to take control of primaries out of the hands of political parties is growing. However, nonpartisan primary systems are only in place in a few states, and the only nonpartisan system in t...