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Since 2007, New Yorkers have enjoyed a quasi-independent mayor in Michael Bloomberg.
Prior to 2001, Bloomberg identified as a Democrat. He switched his registration in
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The U.S. Supreme Court declared on Monday it would send the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin case back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
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In a shining example of how even a blind squirrel can occasionally stumble across ACORN, former Pennsylvania senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum
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The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) flipped the California-focused script and spoke with Education Secretary Arne Duncan about the developments of the federal role in schools.
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While the US government is trying to find National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, another effort is being made to enforce compliance with congressional questioning.
Late last
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A divide is growing amongst campaign finance reforms on how to re-democratize the political process. On the one hand, reformers are pushing for a constitutional amendment
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Less than half (48%) of independent voters in the United States would vote in favor of a law that would replace the current campaign finance system
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Please entertain the idea of opening the 2014 Democratic Primary to minority, independent party, and No Party Affiliation
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States could face a strict timeline to implement new standards if either of the two No Child Left Behind re-authorization bills currently being considered in Congress
Last week, FairVote.org released a new policy paper, in which it presents a proposition to resolve the deficiencies of California's nonpartisan top-two primary. FairVote is an
Harvard economist Greg Mankiw’s provocative recent paper, “Defending the One Percent,” has reinvigorated the debate about taxing the rich across the economics blogosphere, with Paul Krugman, The Economist and
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Along with gun control, immigration reform has been among the more divisive issues in Washington and within the Republican Party.
Within the GOP is the so-called
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