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OPINION: The Toxic Impact Team-Sport Partisanship Has on the Soul of America
Team sports and competition are popular, from baseball to mixed martial arts. However, our politics are increasingly filled with partisan rancor, and unfortunately, despite Americans disassociating wi ...
30 Oct, 2018
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6 min read
Two Types of Ranked Choice Voting: How They Differ and What They Mean For Your Vote
The success of Maine as the first state to use ranked choice voting statewide has brought newfound national attention to ranked choice voting. There’s much to like in this replacement to our fractious ...
26 Sep, 2018
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9 min read
Safer Roads, Bigger Privacy Concerns: A Primer on Self-Driving Cars and Transportation Policy
I. The State of Self-Driving Car Technology and The PossibilitiesIn the 1990 film, Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone), the protagonist played by the now former governor of ...
24 Sep, 2018
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5 min read
It’s Officially "Early Voting Weekend" and It’s Changing America
Early voting has changed the game in modern politics, and that means snail mail is winning.On Friday, absentee voting kicked off in three states: Minnesota, Virginia, and South Dakota, and it signals ...
21 Sep, 2018
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3 min read
How Many Democrats Are The Koch Brothers Backing in November?
The Koch brothers are the perennial capitalist power-donor bogeymen of the right, feared and maligned by Democrats as much as George Soros is hated by Republicans as the same kind of bogeyman of the l ...
17 Sep, 2018
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3 min read
Pop Quiz: How Many Independent or Third Party Senators Have There Been in U.S. History?
The 2018 midterm elections are about to heat up. Much of the focus is on which of the two major parties will have control of Congress after November 6 -- are we looking at a blue wave or a red wave?Wh ...
10 Sep, 2018
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3 min read
When Voter Registration Becomes A Barrier to Voting
Earlier this year, Utah and Washington quietly joined 14 other states that have eliminated the use of registration deadlines as a final cutoff to be able to vote. The congruent actions of a red s ...
26 Jul, 2018
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3 min read
15 Ways the Independent Revolution is Taking Over America
The independent and nonpartisan reform movements have never seen the momentum they are seeing today. Voters are ditching the Republican and Democratic Parties in droves. A record number of independent ...
25 Jul, 2018
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6 min read
Could Ranked Choice Voting Help Save the Parties from Themselves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwyVJ_-q0mE&feature=youtu.beVideo Source: Rebel HQWhen it comes to electoral reform right now, there is no hotter topic -- arguably -- than ranked choice voting (RC ...
18 Jul, 2018
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3 min read
IVP & FairVote Call For Top Four Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting
National Election Reform Groups, the Independent Voter Project and FairVote, are advocating for a primary that advances the “top-four” candidates instead of just two.The groups believe doubl ...
13 Jun, 2018
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