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The Story Behind Why You Have to Pay for Party Primaries
As Bob Conner reported for IVN in 2014, New Jersey’s independents spent approximately $100 million to pay for primaries in which they could not vote between 2000 and 2013. The obvious question is...
Bernie Sanders' Idea For Inter-Party Primary Debates Isn't As Wild As You Think
In June, Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, made waves in the world of political punditry when he suggested in a letter to th...
150 Years After the Civil War, Why That Flag Still Flies
Another racist tragedy reminds us that 150 years after the end of the civil war, America still has a minority that it has failed to integrate, with fatal consequences.Although some of the members of t...
Karl Rove Says Only Way to Stop Violence is to Repeal Second Amendment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJM8DyjsBU4It is hard to believe that Karl Rove would openly say something like this, given his history as a pro-gun advocate, but on Fox News Sunday the Republican con...
Congratulations Congress: You Voted Against Torture... Great Job!
In December 2014 the Senate Intelligence Committee declassified its 500-page executive summary on the use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' by the CIA during the Bush administration. The report w...
Internet Reacts to Jon Stewart's Powerful Monologue on Charleston Shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjzrvRKv6KsJon Stewart is known for taking some of the biggest news stories in the media and making them funny, giving audiences an opportunity to hear about important ...
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 ...
How Politicians Responded to the Charleston Church Shooting on Social Media
On Wednesday night, a gunman opened fire at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people total were killed. The man identified as the primary suspect in the shooting, Daryl Roof, was ...
This is What Inevitability Looks Like: How Hillary Clinton Won the Invisible Primary (Part 2)
As discussed in the first part of this story, Hillary Clinton has spent the last few years repairing her image for the 2016 presidential election. An important aspect of this image-repair involve...
Looking to the Founders: Combating Judicial Activism
When we think of judicial activism or so-called "legislating from the bench," we typically think of this being a modern phenomenon complete with the modern rhetoric of judges going against the will of...