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OPINION: It's Time to Give Approval Voting a Chance
The voting method is extremely important and affects all parts of the election from who wins, how seriously candidates’ ideas are taken, and who you see on your ballot. Specifically, the choose-one pl...
Tolerating Intolerance? Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle on Facebook
This column poses a question for which I have only a tentative answer. I am interested to learn what answers readers have. How do you deal with friends who are so intolerant of political views differe...
Of Anthems and Flags: Why Our Divisive Politics Continue to Get Us Nowhere
The fury over the proper posture to assume during the national anthem at NFL games represents everything that is wrong with American politics.Massive and community-destroying controversy is created by...
6 Lawmakers Who Are Defying The Party Line on Health Care
Is anything less immutable these days than a political party’s orthodoxy? We all like to mourn the death of compromise, but the truth is this: even the Republican and Democratic parties aren’t that fa...
Race and Diversity: Schools Overhaul Curriculum after Charlottesville
Recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, ended violently, as white supremacists clashed with counter-demonstrators, and a car driven by 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., ploughed into a crowd fu...
NEW POLL: Democratic, Republican Brands In Serious Trouble
CNN Polls has been asking respondents since 1992 whether they have a favorable or unfavorable attitude toward each of the two major parties. The latest poll shows that only 29% approve of the Republic...
Howard Dean: Both Parties Driving Younger Voters to Be Independents
Dr. Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, and a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, recently had some sobering words for the two major political parties in the...
2020 Vision: A Clear Path to Breaking the Two-Party Machine
These are the best of times—and the worst of times—for independents striving to disrupt and transform our broken politics.The Best of TimesThough it can be obscured in the dust and smoke of moment-by-...
Removing the Least Democratic Part of America’s Elections
Voting in America is not easy. You first have to register. You have to find your polling place. In most states, you have to take time before, during, or after work to get to your polling place. You ha...
If Courts Can't Protect Voters in a Rigged System, Who Will?
How Can Citizens Redress their Grievances of an Unfair Election Process?According to Judge William J. Zloch, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, they can’t.On August 25, 2...