If the media coverage of shutdown politics is to be believed, House Republicans' fear of 'getting primaried' by a more conservative opponent was a major impediment to
Facebook announced Wednesday that it will yet again be updating its privacy settings, opening up the option to post publicly to teenagers aged 13-17:
Teens are among the savviest
In general, Stratfor deals with U.S. domestic politics only to the extent that it affects international affairs. Certainly, this topic has been argued and analyzed extensively. Nevertheless, the shutdown
California is a unique place. Just ask anyone who's ever lived there.
So naturally the state boasts a unique system for nominating its elected officials as well and
According to a recent USA TODAY/Bipartisan Policy Center poll, Americans are increasingly supportive of electoral reforms aimed towards easing the hyper-partisanship that has plagued the 113th Congress. When
Deficits Are A First-Order Problem
[On Tuesday], Former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers argued that “budget deficits are now a second-order problem”
Good job Congress. After two weeks of anxiety about the future of our economy, two weeks without national parks, two weeks of furloughed federal employees, two weeks of confusion over
Campaign finance reformers and California based government transparency group Maplight held an AMA on Reddit Wednesday. The two-hour event addressed growing public concern over the high-profile Supreme Court
Representative Gage Froerer is currently trying to convince the Utah Substance Abuse Advisory Council to treat Cannabidiol extracts as something other than a controlled substance in order for the beneficial
A statutorily imposed debt ceiling has been in effect since 1917 when the US Congress passed the Second Liberty Bond Act. Before 1917 there was no debt ceiling in force,
With its last two former governors arrested, Illinois has become a political punch line. As if to throw more fuel on the fire, a 2011
report found that 14 Illinois
Benjamin Franklin once said that “The only things certain in life are death and taxes.” Mr. Franklin never encountered the 112
th or 113th Congress. Since the debt limit was
