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Oops! GOP Leaders Admit New Plan Doesn't Cut Taxes for All
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), one of the "Big Six" responsible for crafting the GOP's comprehensive tax reform bill admitted to the New York Times Friday that the tax refor...
3 Indisputable Reasons the Two-Party System is Failing America
In a nutshell, here’s how I would describe the state of American politics. The regulators are unqualified to regulate. The parties are unqualified to govern. The political scientists are unqualified t...
The Main Reason NY Voters Will Likely Reject a Constitutional Convention
Today, New Yorkers will vote on whether to hold a New York State Constitutional Convention, often referred to by the shorthand “con con.” The con con issue has fractured both parties along establ...
After Rand Paul's Assault, It's Time to Say Enough Is Enough!
In a story that continues to get more bizarre as new details emerge, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), is recovering from 5 broken ribs after a neighbor assaulted him Friday afternoon while the Tea Party Rep...
Disrupt Politics: The Partisan Duopoly is Protecting Putin -- And Endangering Us
Shortly after the Second World War, a Republican legislator sought to temper criticism of a Democratic president. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Arthur Vandenberg declared that we should ...
Pull the Plug: Tesla Crashes Without Uncle Sam’s Fuel
It's been a rough quarter for Tesla. The carmaker announced this week a quarterly loss of $671 million and now, quietly, experts are growing concerned with the direction and future viability of the co...
NJ Governor's Race: 5 Choices for Voters Fed Up with Two-Party Control
America’s “two-party” version of democracy is unsustainable. The good and bad news is that local and state politics is more important than ever.If there is to emerge some third way to take advantage o...
How Seattle Is Leading the Fight Against Corrupt Politics
The experiment to save American democracy is happening, right now. And if you’re an American desperate to see a solution to the corrupt status quo, you should be paying attention.In late 2015, the peo...
New Rules: California's Feinstein May Lose Far Left, and Win
By definition, conventional wisdom is convention. It often has the added value of being right.I read a commentary by Joe Matthews recently that argued California’s Top Two primary works agai...
Constitutional Convention Offers Best Chance for Election Reform in New York
With Election Day just a week away, New Yorkers are getting bombarded with millions of dollars worth of negative messaging about the constitutional convention. While I used my previous column to detai...