Update: On October 29, the Commission on Presidential Debates released its criteria for the 2016 fall debates. It maintains its 15% polling threshold for candidate inclusion. What polling agencies the Commission will use are still unknown.

Senator Jim Webb, one of the five candidates in the first Democratic primary debate, dropped out of the race for president, but left the door open for a run as an independent. Here's what he said:

This month, the United Nations celebrated its 70th anniversary. To commemorate the document that birthed it, the 193 members of the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution declaring, "We firmly believe that the Charter enshrines our common values as human beings, which unite us in diversity beyond our differences of language, culture or religion, today as 70 years ago."

On Thursday, October 29, news broke that former congressional candidate, Karen Mathews Davis, admitted that two death threats she received while running for Congress were fake. Under federal investigation and having failed a polygraph test, Mathews Davis confessed that she made the whole thing up.

Politico reported Friday that the Republican National Committee has canceled plans to partner with NBC News for a primary debate in February. The RNC cited a "bad faith" performance by CNBC in Wednesday's evening debate.

I previously published a piece calling for Election Day to be held on Veteran’s Day. But besides honoring Veterans with this poetic display of democracy in our republic, what else could independents do?

The United States is exceptional, we have a marvelously productive society. We could, if need be, produce any goods or services that we could need or even reasonably want. We just have to set our minds to it.

We've covered the first parts of Bernie's Agenda for America, starting with an overview his plans for infrastructure, climate change, worker co-ops, unions, minimum wage and

On the heels of Joe Biden's decision not to run for president in 2016 and the recent exit of several other contenders, the presidential field has finally shown signs of settling.

Joe Biden will not run.

The third Republican primary debate was, deservedly, a train wreck.

What went wrong had effectively nothing to do with the candidates themselves, which could almost be refreshing if it weren’t for what did actually derail the event.