The Republican Party's approval rating is the highest its been in seven years. According to Gallup’s September ‘Government’ poll, the GOP scored the favorable opinion of 45% of Americans. This a nine-point jump from last September’s 36 percent result.

There are many who would argue that the political and media circus around the Kavanaugh controversy has gotten out of hand. It is not about the facts. It is not even about respect for the claims of his accusers or his repeated denials. It is about the spectacle.

Editor's Note: This article was co-authored by Kammi Foote and Donald Wilson Bush, president of the Woodrow Wilson Legacy Foundation.

In 2016, for the fifth time in the history of the United States, it appears that the President of the United State won the Electoral College vote, but lost the popular vote. As a result, many are calling for a reform of the Electoral College in favor of a national popular election; and this debate has added a new level of division and emotional discord to the polarization already infecting our civic discourse on Main Street.

San Diego, CA.- District 2 City Council candidate Dr. Jen Campbell finished second to incumbent Lorie Zapf in the June primary.

Campbell received 21% of the vote, Zapf had 43%.

It was an impressive finish for Campbell as she had never run for public office.

A Democrat, Dr. Campbell retired from the medical profession after 37 years of treating patients and teaching medicine. It was a medical issue, the Hepatitis A crisis in San Diego, that she says caused her to run for public office.

I. The State of Self-Driving Car Technology and The Possibilities

In the 1990 film, Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone), the protagonist played by the now former governor of California hails a self-driving car with a humanoid, robotic attendant sitting where a human driver would.

What makes the surreal scene eerily prophetic is how Schwarzenegger asks the AI cab driver questions like one might ask Alexa, Siri, or Google's voice assistant, and the "Johnny Cab" sasses him and cracks jokes just like Siri might do.

California is the fifth largest economy in the world and has the fifth highest tax rate in the United State. It would be reasonable to assume that those alone would be enough to merit a round of debates between candidates vying to become its governor. However, like many other things in California, that is not the case.

The best defense is a good offense according to the new National Cyber Strategy, announced by the White House. The US is set to play offense more than ever in the security war being fought somewhere above our heads in the “cloud” and in the networks that connect us.

Jefferson City, Missouri - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a proposed anti-corruption, anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative -- Amendment 1 -- is good to go for the November ballot after a lower court removed it.

The decision comes days before the November ballot needed to be finalized to be sent overseas for members of the military and for the first round of absentee ballots.

Early voting has changed the game in modern politics, and that means snail mail is winning.

On Friday, absentee voting kicked off in three states: Minnesota, Virginia, and South Dakota, and it signals the final phase of ‘midterms 2018.’  Sort of. It has slowed down the maneuvers of a campaign culture that has always prized speed and power, forcing it to now meet the wants of an electorate that has threatened a formerly predictable timeline by lengthening it.