Editor's note: This article was written by Peter Ackerman, chairman of Level the Playing Field, and Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. It originally published in The Washington Post.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of Apple in

As always, in the current  race for the presidency each of the candidates claims to have the “best” plan for the economy—without demonstrating any cognizance of our economy’s real flaws. For people on the political left, the problems most commonly cited are unemployment and poverty. People on the political right most often cite tax rates and the size of the debt public debt. Chronic instability as such (wobbling between recession and inflation) hardly ever gets mentioned, though if we are experiencing a recession or inflation each side is anxious to blame the other for it.

Suppose you had an infinitely long life and could have spent a million dollars a day since the beginning of the Christian Era. How much would you have spent by 2015?

About $736 billion -- that's it.

When we start talking about things like the $19 trillion national debt or the $3.3 trillion federal budget, they become imaginary numbers, ones we can't even fathom the math behind.

There has been much public debate about whether Apple has the right to reject the FBI’s request for universal access to IPhones.

(Sacramento, CA) - Assemblymember Kristin Olsen (R-Modesto), State Senator Anthony Cannella (R-Ceres), and the Independent Voter Project jointly announce the filing of resolution ACR 145 in the California State assembly urging Secretary of State Alex Padilla to provide an additional, nonpartisan presidential ballot that lists all the qualified candidates so that voters - regardless of their affiliation or nonaffiliation with a major political party - have an opportunity to cast a ballot for

Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again” is a deceptively simple—and simply deceptive—bit of rhetoric. These four words embed two arguments designed to appeal to the worst elements of human nature: resentment (by suggesting that America is no longer great), and vanity (by asserting that exceptional greatness is something to which all Americans are entitled). It’s hard to go wrong appealing to the baser angels of our nature.

Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson told his supporters on Wednesday that he does “not see a political path forward.” Though he did not formally suspend his campaign, he announced that he will not be attending the Republican debate on Thursday.

Carson wrote in a Facebook post:

California will soon have a centralized voter registration database across all of its 58 counties. It’s called VoteCal, and it will give the 17.2 million voters in California the ability to check their registration status online, get real-time updates on whether their ballots were counted, and find their polling locations.

The Denver Post reported Wednesday that hundreds of Democratic voters were reportedly turned away from Colorado caucus sites Tuesday night because party officials were unprepared and overwhelmed by the larger-than-expected turnout.