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Trump Can Pass DACA and Build a Wall -- Just Not a Real One
Trump Can Pass DACA and Build a Wall -- Just Not a Real One
As part of his campaign platform, then-candidate Trump called for a litany of immigration reforms, including his trademark cry for a “beautiful” wall along the US-Mexico border.Trump’s campaign, howev...
Anti-Corruption Leader Says 2018 Is Big Year to Unrig the System
Anti-Corruption Leader Says 2018 Is Big Year to Unrig the System
T.J. O'Hara is joined by Josh Silver.Josh is a veteran election and media reform executive. He was the campaign manager for the successful 1998 Arizona Clean Elections ballot initiative, and is the co...
Time Is Right to Elect An Independent Governor in Connecticut
Time Is Right to Elect An Independent Governor in Connecticut
Just before Thanksgiving, I received a call out of the blue from a friend of Oz Griebel, a well-known and very respected business leader in Connecticut, and a Republican. He began by telling me that M...
Blue States Go to War with Washington over GOP Tax Bill
Blue States Go to War with Washington over GOP Tax Bill
In the wake of the Republican tax reform bill, which has been hailed by supporters as the most significant revision to the federal tax code in 30 years, many Democratic states and city governments are...
A New Countdown: Midterm Money Is Rolling In
A New Countdown: Midterm Money Is Rolling In
The countdown to 2018 has finished and Washington has snapped its head in the direction of another countdown: the mid-term elections in November.In just eleven months, the balance of power can be easi...
Truth Is, Republican and Democratic Politicians Don't Really Care About Taxpayers
Truth Is, Republican and Democratic Politicians Don't Really Care About Taxpayers
In the last week of 2017, the Washington Post published an article highlighting perhaps the biggest winner from the the new GOP tax plan: accountants.The bill’s passage on partisan lines, along with t...
The 7 Most Partisan News Stories of 2017
The 7 Most Partisan News Stories of 2017
American voters who have remained in the two-party system are more partisan than ever before and they're saying so in public opinion polls every year:"Surveys over time have used a 100-point thermomet...
10 Sites You Need to Follow to Escape "Fake News" in 2018
10 Sites You Need to Follow to Escape "Fake News" in 2018
Today, it feels nearly impossible to discern who is telling the truth and who is, as the president is so fond of screaming, “fake news.”My right-leaning father and I are consistently battling each oth...
Beyond the Partisan Headlines: The Top 10 IVN Articles of 2017
Beyond the Partisan Headlines: The Top 10 IVN Articles of 2017
Say what you want about 2017, it wasn't the slow and boring year in politics many politicos would have otherwise expected from an odd year -- a year that falls between presidential and midterm electio...
Now More Than Ever, We Need A Revolution of Unity
Now More Than Ever, We Need A Revolution of Unity
Whatever your views on the tax bill, Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones or the Trump presidency, the last few weeks should trouble you if you love our country.Partisan pundits from each of the two warring facti...