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Two-Party Brain Drain: Why The Nation's Brightest Minds are Fleeing The Parties
In the study of migration patterns, scholars often times point to different “push” and “pull” factors that have influenced migration trends over time.Historically, the free market structure of the Uni...
Election Reformers: Let History Guide You. Lessons of How Slavery Formed our Two Political Parties
For me, history, the study of it and the making of it, has been an essential part of life.Growing up in the underground of the poor black community, reading became my salvation, and reading ...
Our Hyper-Partisan Media Circus Robs Us of Crucial World News
The fourth estate is a term you used to hear more often in reference to American politics. These days, it has to be explained. It's not a hard concept. The media takes responsibility for sharing objec...
New VA Bill Would Give Voters a Truly Open Primary
Virginia Independent Voters Association Director Steve Richardson wrote an op-ed in The Virginian-Pilot Thursday in support of a new bill that would reform state primaries to a nonpartisan, top-two op...
Can We Shut Down the Two-Party System?
Update: The Senate voted Monday to reopen the government, and extend funding until February 8, setting up yet another potential shutdown fight. The recent government shutdown is only the latest m...
More States Take Up Statewide Ranked Choice Voting Bills
With the new year, begins a new legislative session. Legislators have the opportunity to use this time to introduce bills to empower voters in their state. Ranked choice voting (RCV) continues to expa...
Meet the VA Delegate Who Wants to Give Voters Direct Democracy and Nonpartisan Primaries
Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul is no stranger to election reform. He has championed a number of legislative efforts to improve elections in the past, and has introduced a new package of election reforms...
The 7 Most Partisan News Stories of 2017
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 over time have used a 100-point thermomet...
High-Stakes Virginia Election to be Decided by Name Drawing
It’s been a dramatic week in the race to fill the 94th District seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. After the initial tabulation from the Nov. 7 election, incumbent David Yancy (R) led challenger S...
In Big Win for Federalism, "Magic" Mushrooms Up Next for CA Ballot?
Supporters of a 2018 ballot initiative to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in California were given the green light by the state attorney general's office earlier this month to circulate petitions and g...