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The last 24 hours in Washington has brought to bare a political name and time in our country’s history that makes most shudder.Before his dismissal, FBI Director James Comey was leading probes into Tr ...

Last week, Congress avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded for another week.Then over the weekend, US lawmakers agreed to a deal tha ...

A total of 31 lawmakers in Massachusetts are co-sponsoring  H. 2897, which would allow towns, municipalities, and cities to use ranked choice voting for their local elections. ...

The 2016 election cycle was an exceptionally rough one for voters and candidates alike. The divisive rhetoric and lack of support for the major-party candidates revealed a failure in our system to eng ...

The Bernie revolution set grassroots on fire. It got young people involved like we haven’t seen in years. It shifted the dialogue to things the media had not focused on before, things that were import ...

Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, on this day, January 31, 1919, 98-years ago.He grew up to become the most important black man in American history and its greatest athlete.Before MLK, Jr., ...

As the new year gets underway, state legislatures around the country are convening to tackle the issues of the day. In at least nine states, electoral reform is on the agenda. Building on the momentum ...

In the wake of a highly contentious 2016 election, reformers continue to make use of America's general dissatisfaction with the political status quo in order to mend our broken electoral system.F ...

With a Trump presidency coupled with a GOP Congress on the near horizon, changes in health care reform are finally on the table. Other than those with preexisting conditions, many on the left hav ...

This week, Forbes shocked readers with the observation that legal marijuana sales in the United States for 2016 were larger -- and growing at a faster pace -- than the dot-com boom of the early 2 ...