IVN published an article recently about how partisanship has reached such an extreme in American society that it is dividing families, friends, and becoming a deal breaker for potential marriage partners.

So we set out to prove that despite the perception that people are only ugly to each other online and stuck in their own political bubbles, independent thought and civility can exist on social media.

Read our centrist recap for the week below. We shine a light on the spin and useless stories from the Left and Right and detail what you should focus on, before people can pull wool over your eyes.

There are many reasons to be thinking about the upcoming Census. Making sure it is properly funded and that there are as few undercounts as possible are two. We should be thinking just as hard, or perhaps harder, about the legislative redistricting process that will follow it in 2021.

For the most part, mapmaking for political jurisdictions has been controlled by legislators since the first one one was established.  It has been viewed a basic political right. Computerization of voter and demographic data has refined this process and made it exquisitely precise.

Margaret Thatcher once said that “politics at its purest is philosophy in action." As someone who gave her name to a political age that represented a very clear break from what came before and fundamentally changed a nation – according to both her admirers and her critics - she may have earned the right to be taken seriously.

I am really, really glad I wasn’t an Alabama voter last Tuesday.

The choices: A Democratic candidate who, though apparently a decent fellow, can be expected to largely vote the big government, big spending party line, or….Roy Moore — homophobe, theocrat, and apparently, at best, a creepy pursuer of very young women.

There was, of course, the “write-in” option, which would have been conscience-saving choice, but unlikely to have a great impact.

The FCC's net neutrality decision Thursday sent the online community in an uproar. Much of the visible response was outrage over the vote to scrap 2015 regulations that many think were necessary to secure a free and open internet.

Time will tell exactly what comes out of the decision. Lawsuits are being filed to challenge it, and individual states will move to enact their own net neutrality rules.

In 2004, then Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a memorandum to his Under Secretary in which he expressed concerns regarding recent allegations of sexual assault on service members deployed to Iraq and Kuwait.

Moviegoers 50 years ago were captivated and challenged by a provocative, topical film: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? The storyline was tailor-made for the moment.

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn portrayed conventionally liberal white parents who found their principles put to the test when their daughter brought her betrothed home for the holidays.

Five years after adopting top-two, nonpartisan open primaries, California has seen its legislature transform from a state of dysfunction into a successful model for reform. Now, a new survey reveals that the people of California are noticing.

The FCC voted Thursday to repeal net neutrality regulations put in place under the Obama administration. The news was largely bemoaned online, as several sites and content providers pushed US consumers to rally against the FCC's decision.

Many of these companies, along with lawmakers like US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, launched online petitions to send to the FCC ahead of the vote.