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What California Knows About Kamala Harris
More than any other vice presidential contender in a generation, Kamala Harris’ biography is singularly Californian. Born and bussed to school in Berkeley, tested by San Francisco’s cut-throat municip ...
12 Aug, 2020
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17 min read
Should the State Investigate Local Police Shootings? California Rethinks its Resistance
If officers shot and killed Sean Monterrosa in Connecticut or New York — instead of in Vallejo, California — a state agency would investigate the June 2 incident, when a police officer reportedly mist ...
11 Aug, 2020
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13 min read
Side Hustles, Liquidating 401(k)s: Here’s How Jobless Californians Are Getting by Without the Extra $600
Since the federal weekly $600 boost expired last month, unemployed Californians have been living on impossibly low budgets — and expect to do so in the coming months even if President Trump’s weekend ...
11 Aug, 2020
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7 min read
#LetHerSpeak: Libertarian Demands for Open Presidential Debates Trend on Social Media
Libertarians across the country organized #LetHerSpeak convoys Saturday with vehicles adorned in purple and gold and messages calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to include Libertarian p ...
10 Aug, 2020
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2 min read
Fact Check: Can Mail-In Ballots Be Sent to the Wrong Address?
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Absentee voting refers to when a voter requests a ballot for an e ...
10 Aug, 2020
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2 min read
The 18th-Century Reason Biden's VP Pick Should Be a Night Owl
If Joe Biden were to ask the framers of the constitution what qualities he should look for in a running mate, they might single out one in particular: a love of lucubration. It literally means w ...
06 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
Top Virginia Newspapers Endorse Amendment to End Party Control over Political Redistricting
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the latest newspaper to publish an endorsement of a constitutional amendment that would end single-party control over redistricting in Virginia and bring transparency to ...
03 Aug, 2020
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2 min read
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost h ...
03 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
A National Database: The Nonpartisan Solution to Police Misconduct
Editor's Note: Please see the corresponding number in the "Notes" for the source of the information.IntroductionNow more than ever, police misconduct has rocketed to the forefront of our national conv ...
24 Jul, 2020
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12 min read
How We Vote Could Make You Sick, And We Shouldn't Accept That
Voting is a right; This shouldn’t be a controversial statement but it is. The struggle to ensure that every adult United States citizen has the right to vote has been going on since the founding of ou ...
20 Jul, 2020
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3 min read