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Do Independent Voters Need More Independent Candidates?
Demand, meet SupplyAmidst some disenchantment with both major political parties, the chart above shows, when looking across the 50 states, the share of votes earned by candidates that were not either ...
Georgia Health Insurance Costs Up 198%?
A recent trend in the naming of legislation is to include the purported benefits in the title, hence, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”—aka Obamacare. Unfortunately, experience has show...
Beyond the Headlines: The Week of July 23, 2013
Dear IVN Readers,As the media brings you 24/7 news coverage of a British baby, we are proud to do real investigative reporting on things that matter to the foundation of our democracy and a productive...
Asian Foreign Policy May Be Doomed To Repeat History
USS Enterprise at Supic Bay // Credit: Dual Freq via Wikimedia CommonsThe 20th Century began with a rising power in Asia whose nakedly expansionist aspirations and increasing belligerence produced da...
Does Money Buy Happiness?
Rule number one in effective communication is to establish the relevancy of the topic to the audience. Why should they care? How does it affect their quality of life?Truthful accounting might do just ...
Large Increase in MD Unaffiliated Voters Highlights Need for Reform
vepar5 / shutterstock.comIn an effort to boost participation numbers in the party's primary elections, the Republican Party of Maryland is considering opening their primaries to independent and unaff...
Zimmerman Verdict Reporting of Riots Has Been Grossly Factually Inaccurate
Police disperse protesters in Los Angeles // Credit: Mae Ryan via KPCCI've seen a few accounts of violence attributed to a backlash to the Zimmerman Verdict over the weekend. There have been protests...
Solutions to the Military Sexual Assault Crisis
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel had his first in-person meeting with the panel responsible for reviewing the Department of Defense's (DoD) policies and procedures regarding sexual assault on June 27....
On the Mortality of Eagles and the Unintended Consequences of Wind Turbines
Within the nest of an eagle, three or four eggs may be incubating at one time, but once the first chick hatches, the rest, if they manage to crack their shells, will often be at the mercy of their rut...
When Is Minority Participation Representation, and When Is It Tokenism?
In Minnesota, the recent decision which overturns the congressional affirmation of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act from the 1960s provoked an inappropriate tweet from a democrat in the state l...