With Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada now in the books for the 2016 Democratic primary, one thing has been certain: the pollsters aren't doing a good job of predicting their outcomes.

Maryland state Senator Jamie Raskin is at the forefront of the state's efforts to end partisan gerrymandering and enact fundamental election reform. In a state that has been called one of the most gerrymandered in the nation, and during a time when partisan politics increasingly incentivize the manipulation of district lines, Raskin believes this type of legislative action is sorely needed.

As Bernie Sanders makes the shift from a populist insurgent to an arguable front-runner, we should expect to see the Socialist Card deployed with much greater frequency than ever before. By “Socialist Card,” I mean the argument that Sanders (who, after all describes himself as a “socialist”) represents the antithesis of everything that makes American great: capitalism, free-enterprise, the Constitution, and freedom itself—none of which is compatible with socialism, which is just another name for both communism and hating Jesus.

Quinnipiac University has released its newest presidential polling data, with some surprising analysis for those considering an independent run at the White House for 2016.

Should the government be able to access encrypted data on your smartphone? That's the question surrounding the very public pushback Apple is giving the FBI, which is seeking to recover data in the iPhone of one of the shooters in the recent San Bernardino terror attacks. It turns out that what your elected officials think about this question might have a lot to do with the campaign contributions they receive from technology companies and their employees.

Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who is running in the Democratic presidential primary, openly expressed his disapproval of the two-party system on Thursday during an MSNBC candidate forum. Sanders has described himself as a democratic socialist and argues that it is “wrong” how America’s current system diminishes competition to just two sides.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Apple and the FBI square off over whether the feds should get access to the iPhone of a shooter who killed 14 people in the San Bernardino terror attack, Americans are uneasy about whether the tech company should be required to help the FBI unlock the phone and distrustful of how law enforcement would handle personal information on their devices.

Using an obscure law, written in 1789 — the All Writs Act — the US government has ordered Apple to place a back door into its iOS software so the FBI can decrypt information on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

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Currently the United States owns five inhabited island territories. The citizens of four of them -- Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands -- are all US citizens at birth. The citizens of American Samoa are born American Nationals who can gain citizenship upon moving to the states.