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Voter Suppression: How Politicians Are At War With Your Vote
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...
Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan: Breaking The Iran Deal Endangers National Security
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...
Chase CEO Could Change Everything About Drug Pricing
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...
How Intellectual Conformity Divides Our Country
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...
Politics for the People Book Club: The Secrets of Mary Bowser
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...
Now It's the Republicans: South Carolina GOP’s Sneaky Attempt to Close Primaries
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...
Pennsylvania: The Wretched Face of Gerrymandering
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...
Opinion: Where Are The Anti-War Marchers?
Just two weeks before Earth Day, President Trump announced his plan to launch a missile strike against Syria, stoking the flames of the War on Terror. Following the strike, Trump tweeted “Mission Acco...
DNC Sues Trump for Winning in 2016
The DNC must have been high when it filed a lawsuit on April 20th against the "Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2...
The Predicament of Polling
If 2016 taught me anything, it is how disastrous political polls have become. And as we head into the 2018 midterms, we should take a hard look how we are conducting them, crunching the numbers and us...