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In the last month, federal district courts in Idaho and South Carolina have handed down rulings on Republican party lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of each state’s open primary system. & ...

"The revolution is alive and well." That's what The Politico reporter Andy Barr wrote this Tuesday in his article summarizing the extraordinary fundraising feat Congressman Ron Paul's supporters pulle ...

Though the mainstream political press has naturally focused on the stinging Democratic losses and sweeping Republican gains in last week's elections, 2010 has proven to be an historic year for thir ...

Either this has been one of the strangest elections in recent history, or else having the Internet around has simply made it possible to nationally ruminate over the strange goings-on in elections thr ...

On July 1, the federal government and dozens of states set up temporary “high-risk” health insurance pools for people denied health insurance due to so-called pre-existing conditions. These pools were ...

Fusion voting was once ubiquitous in the United States, legal in every state of the union.  With the rise of relatively powerful third party and independent political movements in the late ninete ...

A significant – and often overlooked -- result of what’s been dubbed the Great Recession is that in just over half of the 50 states, the programs that pay unemployment insurance to workers who’ve lost ...

California has once again become a Favored Nation in the eyes of Washington. After eight years in the political doghouse, we have been returned to our national leadership position - at least as far a ...

The economic scholar Ronald Coase once characterized themarket as "islands of butter in a pail of buttermilk." Similarly,President Obama's stimulus package could be characterized as islands of sensein ...

The percapita income in Californiawas $33,749 in 2005, according to U.S. Census Bureau Data.If thealternative minimum tax fix that expired in December isn't renewed, taxpayersmaking as little as $30,0 ...