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Divided SCOTUS in 'One Person, One Vote' Case Means Uncertain Future for Voting Rights
Divided SCOTUS in 'One Person, One Vote' Case Means Uncertain Future for Voting Rights
Supreme Court justices heard oral argument Tuesday in a case that may change the way we look at voting rights and elections in the United States. In the case Evenwel v. Abbott, which centers arou...
Trump Says He May Boycott Next Debate if CNN Doesn't Give Him $5 Million
Trump Says He May Boycott Next Debate if CNN Doesn't Give Him $5 Million
USA Today reported late Monday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed demanding $5 million from CNN or he would not participate in the next debate during a campaign stop in Macon...
Bipartisan Team of Lawmakers Says Throwing Out Assad Now Will Only Strengthen ISIS
Bipartisan Team of Lawmakers Says Throwing Out Assad Now Will Only Strengthen ISIS
A team of bipartisan lawmakers has introduced a bill designed to end what they call "the illegal, counter-productive war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad."U.S. Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, a H...
Behind Closed Bars: How Do We Define Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
Behind Closed Bars: How Do We Define Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
We've all heard metaphors about sending people to jail. “Don't drop the soap." “Big Bubba will like your purty mouth.” Many people find these metaphors humorous. This is odd, for it seems like th...
Crowdpac Breaks Down the Candidates in Contentious House Speaker Race
Crowdpac Breaks Down the Candidates in Contentious House Speaker Race
Last week, California Republican Kevin McCarthy abruptly scratched himself from the list of Republican members of Congress seeking the Speaker of the House position. McCarthy, widely hailed as a more ...
Why 'Wouldn't' the Pope Visit Kim Davis?
Why 'Wouldn't' the Pope Visit Kim Davis?
Of all the firestorms that could be reignited on a Friday morning, this is definitely one of the popular ones lately.Some groups were horrified that the pope wasted 10 minutes on a low-level county cl...
5 Quotes That May Define Ben Carson's Foreign Policy Agenda
5 Quotes That May Define Ben Carson's Foreign Policy Agenda
One of the Republican presidential candidates rising in polls is neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson. Never holding political office nor serving in the military, Dr. Carson has admitted he is a foreign p...
Government of a Few: New Data Shows Just How Broken Our Democracy Really Is
Government of a Few: New Data Shows Just How Broken Our Democracy Really Is
FairVote on June 12 released Government of the Few in the “Decided Dozen" -- Frozen Representation and the Distorted Demographics of Decisive Primary Elections. Report authors Andrew Douglas and Zack ...
Welcome to Georgia: One of the Least Politically Competitive States in the Nation
Welcome to Georgia: One of the Least Politically Competitive States in the Nation
This week, the Washington Post published an analysis of Georgia's gerrymandering problem. Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating electoral boundaries to favor one political party or dilut...
Outrage over Religious Freedom Laws Expands Nationwide; Alters Future Elections
Outrage over Religious Freedom Laws Expands Nationwide; Alters Future Elections
Controversy over Indiana's "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" is being heralded as a bellwether for national opinion by some LGBT advocates.The bill gave businesses the right to deny service to someo...