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Where do we even begin after Las Vegas? The shooting was so calculatingly evil, so tragic for the victims, and so sad for our nation. And yet we have been here before: after Sandy Hook, after the Orlando night club shooting, after Louisiana GOP Rep. Steve Scalise was shot in the capital this summer. Our reaction is always shock and sorrow – followed almost immediately by the same predictable partisan debate on guns. I fervently believe that electing more centrist independents can help break thr

The statement "all politicians are corrupt" has as much truth to it as "all Muslims are terrorists" and "all Christians are ignorant bigots." But here’s the trap in American politics: there’s one political party that makes nearly no attempt to disguise its duplicity. Many of them lie so badly and so often most of us are numb to it. The other political party does only a slightly better job representing the people. The trouble is, the average voter can no longer tell which is which. As a result

We have witnessed another senseless tragedy: the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Desperate cries for gun control almost immediately surfaced. While the motivation for such pleas cannot be questioned, their timing and impact can be. Gun-related homicides take place every day in the United States with New Orleans, Detroit, Baltimore, Miami, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta leading the way on a per capita basis. Chicago barely makes the top ten (#9). These major cities roughly parall

The numbers are in for Nevada's first month of legal retail marijuana sales. In July, legal marijuana dispensaries in Nevada made $27.1 million selling the marijuana plant's leaves (or "flowers" as they're called by consumers), products to smoke or vaporize the plant, and edible food products infused with THC (the psychoactive chemical in marijuana that produces the characteristic "high" for which marijuana is so highly valued). That figure is nearly double what dispensaries in Colorado and Or

Focusing on whether a football player takes a knee or the president chooses to tweet about it misses a point. Our country is absorbed in partisan controversy, and the media plays right along. Kneel to fight for social justice? That's freedom of speech. Stand to recognize the people who have given their lives to keep us safe? That's freedom of speech. But what about free speech during the most important political dialogue between candidates and the American people ... the presidential debates

Editor's note: The following article was written by #UNRIG co-founders Robert David Steele and former US Rep. Cynthia Ann McKinney God bless Bernie Sanders. God bless Donald Trump. God bless the 26% that voted for Hillary Clinton, and God bless the 47% that did not vote at all. Today, former US Rep. Cynthia Ann McKinney and Robert David Steele, humbly ask each of you to draw a line in the sand. People, not parties. Truth, not lies. Action, not apathy. Figure 1: Cynthia Ann McKinney and Rober

Alabama's closed, partisan Republican primary pits two candidates, Roy Moore and Luther Strange, that prove the value of open, nonpartisan primaries. Put simply, the "I'm a bigger right-winger than you are" themed campaign is exactly what works in closed, partisan primaries. This, of course, is also true of the "I'm a bigger left-winger than you are" campaign that flourishes in closed Democratic primaries. The overwhelming majority of US lawmakers were selected through these closed, partisan p

We talk about the political divide in Washington and the gridlock that prevents anything from getting done on Capitol Hill. Yet, if there is one thing both parties can agree on, it is the topic of defense, war, and foreign policy. That was evident this week when the Senate approved the National Defense Authorization Act in a 89-8 vote. The bill authorizes $700 billion in military spending for the next fiscal year. The US is now on track to have the largest military budget in the decade-plus wa

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 United States. On a Washington Post podcast, Dean said, "The most reliable demographic of our voters are the young people across the board, across racial and ethnic lines," but added that this is a major problem for the DNC, because: "These people are not Democrats." Dean went on to explain: "Th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koFK6b9NOOA Video Source: TYT Politics Approximately 400 people showed up in Washington to attend the People's Convergence Conference from September 8 to 10. The event included a town hall at American University where panelists discussed the future of the progressive movement. Specifically, whether or not Sanders supporters and other progressives should continue to try to change the Democratic Party from within or form a new party. Event organizers say an over