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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 ...
19 Jun, 2015
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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 ...
19 Jun, 2015
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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 ...
19 Jun, 2015
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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 ...
18 Jun, 2015
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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 ...
09 Apr, 2015
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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 ...
12 Feb, 2015
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For Students, There Are More Factors in College Decisions than Money
Earlier this month, the White House released a statement outlining "the America’s College Promise proposal to make two years of community college free for responsible students,".The free communit ...
30 Jan, 2015
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Miss. Secretary of State Report Backs Nonpartisan, Top-Two Primary
Taxpayer-funded party primaries may soon be a thing of the past in Mississippi, if a recent report from a state-sponsored study group means anything.Convened by Mississippi’s secretary of st ...
29 Jan, 2015
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47 U.S. Representatives Co-Sponsor Bipartisan Industrial Hemp Farming Act
Vote Hemp, a major grassroots hemp advocacy group, on Thursday announced the introduction of complementary bills in the U.S. House and Senate, S. 134 and H.R. 525, titled the "Industrial Hemp Farming ...
22 Jan, 2015
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Renewed U.S.-Cuba Relations: History's New Chapter
The possibility of renewed U.S.-Cuba relations makes one wonder something about history: has opening up a communist country's market led to more freedom for its citizens?The Fiscal Times claims that n ...
13 Jan, 2015
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