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A bill re-introduced in the US House wants to open the electoral process for non-presidential federal elections, give voters more opportunities to vote, and reform the way electoral districts are redr ...

Why are referendums ending up so different from how polls suggest?From Brexit to the FARC peace deal, there have been some shockers in referendums: the polls have very much gone one way, and the resul ...

In January 2017, the Seattle minimum wage hike increased the city's minimum wage from $13 an hour to $15 for employees of large companies, the second such increase in less than a year. It pushed Seatt ...

The California Senate passed legislation earlier this month to implement a single-payer health care system. The bill's passage was warmly received by progressives, but others have raised concerns abou ...

The "travel ban" is a clickbait phrase that's become a popular subject for the 24-hour news cycle. SCOTUS's decision to mostly reinstate President Trump's ban is certainly getting most of the att ...

The United States continues to fall short in fairly reflecting its diversity in elected offices. Our widespread use of a winner-take-all rule -- that is, one where the biggest group of voters can win ...

The special congressional election in Georgia's 6th District has attracted a lot of outside interest. Democrats, looking for a symbolic victory against President Donald Trump, have spent record-b ...

T.J. O’Hara, IVN’s podcast host, is joined by Tim Canova. Last year Tim Canova ran against then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in South Florida’s 23rd Congressional District.The two discuss how h ...

You know you’ve made it when you become the subject of a Twitter war.Over the weekend, DNC establishment figures took to the Twittersphere to duke it out with progressive activists over the Party’s us ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zo1vacLOc&t=12m25sAttorney General Jeff Sessions appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, fielding a litany of questions about Russia, former FBI ...