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As the Green Party candidate for Congress in upstate NY District 21, when I describe the threats of global warming and the urgent need for an electric grid and national economy based on clean, renewab...

First, let me apologize. I don’t really think you are stupid. I was competing for your attention with an oxymoron. And also to demonstrate how easy it is to get attention by using denigrating language...

Last week I traveled to Kansas for an appearance at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. Nestled in the hills of Lawrence (seemingly the only hills in this flattest of...

Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from voting and is different from political campaigning.Campaigning attempts to change...

No one could accuse former CIA Director John Brennan of being a peacenik or too soft on the United States' enemies.The lifelong CIA man (he started with the agency as a Mid-East analyst and station ch...

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems poised to attack the rising costs of health care one way or another.In April of this year, Dimon used his annual letter to shareholders to add to what we know abo...

People frequently speak about how divided the United States is right now. This comment is often associated with things like left-wing protests on college campuses, discussions of partisan media, and g...

Editor's note: this article was co-authored by Cathy Stewart (introduction) and Caroline Donnola (main article).The Politics for the People (P4P) Book Club brings together independent-minded Amer...

Byline Note: This article was co-written by Harry Kresky, general counsel for Independent Voting, and Wayne Griffin, chairman of the SC Independence Party and Greer City Councilmember. T  he Sout...

Another election season, another increasingly bizarre redrawing of the electoral map. In states across the U.S., voting districts are elongated and chopped, stretched like taffy to cover certain state...