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The 4 Biggest Myths About The Two-Party Duopoly
Former Gehl Foods CEO and founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, Katherine Gehl, has 4 myths about US politics to bust. Think the system is broken, as in not working the way it w ...
24 Jun, 2021
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1 min read
Vermont Sets An Example for Bipartisan Vote-By-Mail Expansion
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher. While much of the country's election reform legislation has been rife with ...
09 Jun, 2021
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2 min read
How Cats Can Help Fix Politics -- No, Seriously
Bess Truman famously said “if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” Well, even though I’m a dog person myself, cats might just hold the key to fixing our politics. Let me explain why.If you’ve ...
07 Jun, 2021
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2 min read
We Have To Break the Long History of Minority Rule in the US
It has become popular on the Left to ascribe Republicans’ recent attempts to change voting laws as anti-democratic, even potentially criminal. There are those, such as Paul Waldman at the Washin ...
07 Jun, 2021
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4 min read
Video: Partisan Primaries Are Our Primary Problem
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from The Fulcrum.Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America, was recently featu ...
19 May, 2021
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Bill To Give Parties Control over Congressional Primaries in Louisiana Dropped
The movement to take control of primaries out of the hands of political parties is growing. However, nonpartisan primary systems are only in place in a few states, and the only nonpartisan system in t ...
05 May, 2021
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3 min read
Political Parties Should Be Players in Our Politics, Not The Rule Makers
We all know the system is broken. It’s rigged. It does not work. How do we know? Because our leaders are not producing solutions to the issues we care about. No one is listening, just talking past e ...
05 May, 2021
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5 min read
Too Strong? Too Weak? Or Obsolete? Looking at the Power of Political Parties
Demographics in the American electorate are shifting, the needs and priorities of voters are changing, yet politics in the US hasn't changed much in the last half century. In fact, the only thing tha ...
14 Apr, 2021
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10 min read
The 7 Most Difficult States to Cast a Ballot before Election Day
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Nearly every state legislature is considering bills to either ...
14 Apr, 2021
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2 min read
It's Time For Nonpartisan Leadership to Run State Elections
Editor's Note: This piece by Larry Diamond, Kevin Johnson, and Miles Rapoport originally published on The Hill, and has been republished with permission from the authors.Two secretaries of state were ...
06 Apr, 2021
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5 min read