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California Wave: Data Privacy Bill Moves Up Despite Tech Kickback
In a 5-0 vote, California’s Senate Judiciary Committee passed a data privacy compromise bill, AB 375, which for the first time passes greater control of personal data and privacy to consumers. It's ex ...
26 Jun, 2018
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5 Reasons Conservatives Should Reevaluate Their Immigration Policy
My purpose in writing this essay is to evaluate the immigration policy that is commonly supported by conservatives today, especially in the years leading up to and including the Obama-Trump era in U.S ...
25 Jun, 2018
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8 min read
New TV Doc: Grassroots Rebellion Takes over American Politics
WASHINGTON – If like most Americans you’re angry that our democracy feels broken, that elections are being corrupted by billionaire and corporate money, and that politicians are rigging elections thro ...
25 Jun, 2018
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OPINION: A Periodic Come-From-Behind Win with Ranked Choice Voting Is The Whole Point
The San Francisco mayor’s race was a cliffhanger. After the initial tally of votes for San Francisco mayor, London Breed had 37%, Mark Leno had 24%. Then ranked-choice voting’s instant runoffs kicked in...
22 Jun, 2018
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5 min read
OPINION: A Periodic Come-From-Behind Win with Ranked Choice Voting Is The Whole Point
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- The San Francisco mayor’s race was a cliffhanger. After the initial tally of votes for San Francisco mayor, London Breed had 37%, Mark Leno had 24%. Then ranked-choice voting’s ...
22 Jun, 2018
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5 min read
Iowa Independent Voters Will Decide Who Wins IA-1 Congressional Election
Iowa independent voters are watching the nation's politics as closely as the nation watches Iowa to understand political trends.As goes Iowa, so goes the nation. So they've been saying since at latest ...
18 Jun, 2018
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3 min read
Human Rights Watch: U.S. Must Stop Separating Families At Border
Human Rights Watch has condemned the U.S. policy of separating immigrant children from their parents, following a denouncement of the policy by the U.N. human rights office Tuesday.In a press briefing ...
06 Jun, 2018
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DC-Based Indie Voters are Legally Disenfranchised from City Council Primary
If a Washington, D.C. voter doesn't interface with a party - specifically the Democratic Party - an unelected board of elections can legally declare that citizen has no right to vote for a municipal c ...
04 Jun, 2018
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Obama Wonders If He Was "10 or 20 Years Too Early" for America
According to a new book by the 44th president's longtime adviser, Benjamin J. Rhodes, shortly after the 2016 elections, Obama wondered aloud to aides in an armed presidential limousine:“What if we wer ...
04 Jun, 2018
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3 min read
What Is Universal Health Care?
America needs a fair, affordable and cost-effective health care system. Until recently, the terms “universal health care” and “single-payer health care” didn’t surface quite as much in our conversatio ...
02 Jun, 2018
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5 min read