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Lenny Mendonca Talks About Challenging Both Parties to Move California Forward
Lenny Mendonca Talks About Challenging Both Parties to Move California Forward
This week, T.J. O’Hara is joined by Lenny Mendonca on the IVN podcast, A Civil Assessment.Lenny Mendonca is a Senior Partner Emeritus from the Washington D.C. and San Francisco offices of McKinsey &am ...
05 Dec, 2017
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1 min read
In Big Win for Federalism, "Magic" Mushrooms Up Next for CA Ballot?
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
In Troubling Move, Military to Recruit People with History of Mental Illness
In Troubling Move, Military to Recruit People with History of Mental Illness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52hu0ilm4EVideo Credit: RTA widely circulated article by Fox News Tuesday reports that the U.S. Army, struggling to meet its recruitment quotas, will be lowering ...
15 Nov, 2017
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3 min read
Maine Voters Fight to Take Government Back from Both Parties
Maine Voters Fight to Take Government Back from Both Parties
Liberal democracy is in crisis, but there are reasons for hope. That is the message coming from several voices in the reform community, including CA FWD's Lenny Mendonca and Larry Diamond, Senior Fell ...
13 Nov, 2017
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3 min read
Here's How to Defeat the 4 Biggest Threats to Democracy
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
How Rand Paul's Absence Could Change Everything in the Senate
How Rand Paul's Absence Could Change Everything in the Senate
If any U.S. senator ever deserved the term "maverick" it might actually be Rand Paul, not his colleague from Arizona. Another term that indisputably applies to the Tea Party Republican is "leader."Mos ...
09 Nov, 2017
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2 min read
County Health Officials: San Diego Opioid Crisis Growing
County Health Officials: San Diego Opioid Crisis Growing
San Diego is ground zero for a two-day opioid addiction summit designed to educate parents, doctors and the public on the country's "most aggressive epidemic." Health leaders from across the country a ...
09 Nov, 2017
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2 min read
3 Indisputable Reasons the Two-Party System is Failing America
3 Indisputable Reasons the Two-Party System is Failing America
In a nutshell, here’s how I would describe the state of American politics. The regulators are unqualified to regulate. The parties are unqualified to govern. The political scientists are unqualified t ...
08 Nov, 2017
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5 min read
Disrupt Politics: The Partisan Duopoly is Protecting Putin -- And Endangering Us
Disrupt Politics: The Partisan Duopoly is Protecting Putin -- And Endangering Us
Shortly after the Second World War, a Republican legislator sought to temper criticism of a Democratic president. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Arthur Vandenberg declared that we should ...
03 Nov, 2017
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6 min read
Independents Can't Win: The Biggest Lie in the Two-Party Playbook
Independents Can't Win: The Biggest Lie in the Two-Party Playbook
There’s no argument that candidates affiliated with the major political parties have tremendous, built-in structural campaign advantages over independent candidates. The range of major-party advantage ...
17 Oct, 2017
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4 min read