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Why The Filibuster Remains Crucial to Our Republic
The all-powerful ability to form cloture in the Senate.Since the beginning of the Republic, the feature of requiring three-fifths (or at times two-thirds) of the Senate to cut-off debate of a topic ha...
5 Surveillance and Security Failures Since 2001
People are still gathering information about Omar Mateen, the shooter of the Orlando nightclub. However, Mateen was twice investigated by the FBI over suspected ties to terrorism. An unnamed source qu...
Bloomberg's Decision Not To Run Is Democracy's Dead Canary
This article was originally published in edited form in the May 2016 edition of USA Today Magazine.Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire 41 times over, decided that the system wa...
IVP Presenta Iniciativa para Eliminar Regla de 50%+1 en Elecciones Primarias, Considera que Todos Deben Poder Votar en Noviembre
Independent Voter Project (IVP), autores de la ley top-two para las primarias no partidistas de California, sometieron una petición para enmendar la ley de la Ciudad de San Diego que declara ganadores...
Taxpayers Shouldn't Waste Millions on Elections No One Participates In
On Tuesday, May 24, voters across the state of Texas were asked to return to the polls for several runoff elections. These runoffs--where the top two vote-getters from the primary election face o...
#NeverTrump Movement Struggles in Search for New Presidential Candidate
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both rather unpopular. How unpopular? According to one recent poll, 52 percent of the public views Clinton unfavorably, and 55 percent view...
Dems Shout 'Shame' after LGBT Amendment Fails, But Fail to Turnout Votes to Pass It
Amendment 30 to H.R. 4974 was defeated by one vote Thursday night, a measure that would have increased protections to LBGT workers of companies who contract with the government.Democrats chanted 'Sham...
2016 Primary Results Indicate Many Independents Are Not Moderates
By sheer statistical coincidence, the percentage of Americans who self-identify as independents (approximately 40 percent) is nearly identical to the percentage of Americans who self-identify as moder...
Falsas Promesas de los partidos politicos a la población latina provoca incremento en registro independiente
La comunidad latina es una de las comunidades de mayor crecimiento en Estados Unidos, de acuerdo al Centro de Investigación Pew. Esto significa que los votantes latinos no sólo están reformando la dem...
Independents Weigh Disappointment with Obama, Disapproval of Trump ahead of Fall Election
In the aftermath of the departures of both U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio from the Republican presidential primary contest, the public’s attention is now beginning to shift t...