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Meet The Candidate Giving Independents Hope in the Midwest
Unbeknownst to most, Nebraska records some of the coldest temperatures in the United States. The reason it beats out most northern states is because it’s so flat the cold winds blow uninterrupted.Bob ...
Enough is Enough! Stop Making Excuses for Sexual Misconduct
In 2004, then Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a memorandum to his Under Secretary in which he expressed concerns regarding recent allegations of sexual assault on service member...
Studies: Segregation by Political Opinion is Real
Moviegoers 50 years ago were captivated and challenged by a provocative, topical film: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? The storyline was tailor-made for the moment.Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn po...
Fight Over Net Neutrality About Control, Not Neutrality
The FCC voted Thursday to repeal net neutrality regulations put in place under the Obama administration. The news was largely bemoaned online, as several sites and content providers pushed US consumer...
We Are Isolating Ourselves Online, And It Is Making Us Politically Dumb
There’s no question: the Internet is the most efficient communication tool ever invented. Unfortunately, most days, it feels like it’s only making us stupider.The unrelenting chaos leading up to and n...
Iowa Candidate: "I Was Born Independent"
I have a confession: I was born an independent, and I'm pretty sure the majority of Americans were too.Whether it is here in the United States or over in Germany and Britain, there have always been an...
Hyper-Partisanship Is Literally Threatening Children's Health in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uf7O5SbM8Video Source: CBS NewsThe congressional budget has been received with mixed responses, and one of the most controversial changes has been a failure to renew ...
Roy Moore v. Doug Jones: The Duopoly Wins
Donald Trump said that elections are rigged. And he was right. He still is.But, for all his “drain the swamp” rhetoric, there is a major area of institutional corruption that he and his “Democratic” f...
How 2.4 Million Washingtonians Were Robbed of Their Votes
A headline like this would probably bring an alphabet soup of federal agencies into the state. That did not happen.What did happen when over 2.4 million American citizens’ votes were nullified? Four t...
Lenny Mendonca Talks About Challenging Both Parties to Move California Forward
This week, T.J. O’Hara is joined by Lenny Mendonca on the IVN podcast, A Civil Assessment.Lenny Mendonca is a Senior Partner Emeritus from the Washington D.C. and San Francisco offices of McKinsey &am...