Nineteen strangers were all it took to pick up our welcome mats and lock our doors. Two buildings in New York City, a field in Pennsylvania, and the always invincible
Co Chairs, Steve Peace and Jeff Marston, of The Independent Voter Project (IVP), authors of California’s non-partisan Top-Two Open Primary Initiative (also known as “Proposition 14”) have
In Minnesota, the recent decision which overturns the congressional affirmation of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act from the 1960s provoked an inappropriate tweet from a democrat in the
So California’s Proposition 8 is gone. A coalition of liberal and conservative justices decided today that they did not have to decide the question they had just decided because
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Gerrymandering has become a prevalent hurdle to meaningful political participation across the country (with few exceptions, including California*). The duopoly at their finest: if you can’t
On the surface, it is easy to look at the real estate foreclosure crisis and blame everything on the banks. While there is no denying that these financial institutions have
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After leaking information on National Security Agency activities, Edward Snowden has been alternately celebrated as a hero and condemned as a traitor to his country. But,
In 2012, states with higher taxpayer burdens had a lower recovery in home prices.
The American dream is to own a home, and it’s every American’s dream that
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RTI International released a study that shows most Americans support drone use when it comes to safety and crime prevention. Although unmanned aerial systems (UAS) present privacy
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Utah was the last state in the union to limit ballot access to a caucus-convention system, which allows candidates to avoid primary elections, and the major
As of June 12, Facebook posts now include clickable hashtags, allowing you to publicly categorize your posts by simply adding a # symbol before any keyword in a post.
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The measure in question, designed to protect minority voters from
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