A local news station in New Mexico, KOB 4, recently aired a story about how independent voters in the state are excluded from the upcoming primaries, which will be held
“Irredentism” is the philosophy by which a state advocates the annexation of another state’s territory because of a common ethnicity or because of former possession of that territory. Perhaps
Recently, in the case Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the United States Supreme Court, by a 6-2 vote, upheld a Michigan ban on affirmative action. The ban
Colorado made history in 2012 when state voters approved Amendment 64, which made it legal for people over 21 to buy small amounts of recreational marijuana. The law went into
Evolve, adapt, or die. That is the message U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has for his own party. The potential Republican presidential candidate spoke at Harvard University on
Can one ordinary citizen change the world?
It is difficult to estimate the number of people who use Twitter to try to change our dysfunctional political environment. According to Twitter,
A phone service provider filed a lawsuit -- which was subsequently rejected -- against NSA data collection, according to a report declassified on Friday. The company's name is redacted in
Each generation has its crisis. Past generations had to fight against colonial rule, slavery, and world tyranny. Others had to rally for women’s suffrage and equal civil rights. In
Can the Federal Communications Commission force Internet service providers to treat all data the same? That is the question Verizon Communications presented to the U.S. Court of Appeals and
The United States is once again in the middle of a major election year and in many elections, people will go the polls with only two options to choose from
It looks like Rand Paul was wrong about Cliven Bundy after all. All the way back on Tuesday, Paul saw Bundy as a symbol of the nation’s discontent with
On Wednesday, another complication was added to the current peace talks between Israel and Palestine when Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ political party, Fatah, signed a unity accord with
