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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 ...

On the Saturday a week before Mother's Day, I participated in the 34th Annual Harlem Mother's Day Parade. I was there on behalf of the Committee for Independent Community Action (CICA), foun ...

Neal Simon is running for United States Senate. The successful businessman is an affirmed independent, and he is competing in bright blue Maryland against incumbent Democratic Senator Ben Cardin as Ca ...

There is something happening in Colorado -- something big.It's been a historic year already for independent candidates, and there is arguably no state in the nation where the independent revolution is ...

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 ...

In 2016 the Libertarian Party enjoyed 50-state ballot access for the first time since 1996, and polled higher than any third party had since Ross Perot took the 1992 presidential election by storm on ...

A Michigan ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana received enough valid signatures to qualify for a vote in November.When the required number of ballot signatures was certified by the St ...

It is periodically reported that California’s Prop 14 (Non-partisan Top Two Primary) was drafted in the middle of the night in the back rooms of the California Legislature. Nothing could be further from the truth.

“If something cannot go on forever, it must stop.”In economics, this is known as Herb Stein’s law. We ignore it at our peril.In the 2000s, economists and other observers pointed out that real estate p ...