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The Challenge To “Winner-Take-All” Launched
Beginning today, in four states across the country, lawsuits will be filed to challenge the way presidential electors are selected in America. The plaintiffs in these suits charge that the “winner-tak ...
23 Feb, 2018
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9 min read
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 ...
22 Feb, 2018
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6 min read
Why Local Elections Are Now Just As Partisan As National Elections
In a democracy, the people have the power, but only if they choose to wield it. With the mercurial state of America’s representative system in recent elections, it’s becoming clear that more involveme ...
14 Feb, 2018
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3 min read
The One Bill In Congress That Could End Gerrymandering for Good
The Gerrymandering Project at 538 has begun an interesting conversation by producing eight sets of national congressional maps, each with a distinct goal.They demonstrate what maps would lo ...
29 Jan, 2018
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3 min read
Vermont Makes History with Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont is poised to become the 30th U.S. state to legalize marijuana for medical or recreational consumption, and the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana t ...
11 Jan, 2018
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2 min read
Tribal Politics Make Hypocrites Out of Republicans AND Democrats
A lot of people feel pretty strongly about their political opinions. Often we feel like they are quite set in stone; based on some very deep values that won't change much.A lot of people also feel lik ...
26 Dec, 2017
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3 min read
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 ...
29 Nov, 2017
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4 min read
Move Over California, The Single-Payer Revolution Takes Off In Another Blue State
Mass-Care is the name of the Bay State’s campaign to bring affordable health care to all Massachusetts residents under a single-payer system. Such a system could serve as the archetype for all of ...
15 Nov, 2017
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3 min read
Here's How to Defeat the 4 Biggest Threats to Democracy
During a time of deep political dysfunction in the United States, it is easy to assume that American democracy has gone off the rails, perhaps for good. But if Americans can look past the slow-motion ...
13 Nov, 2017
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5 min read
The Number One Reason Free Health Care Won't Work in the US
The subject of health care reform is a battle that has been raging since the 1990s. This issue erupted when the cost of health care began to rise.Coincidentally, the increase in costs rose around the ...
21 Sep, 2017
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2 min read