SACRAMENTO, CALIF. -- California legislators, public affairs representatives, and reformers of all stripes attended the first-ever California Nonpartisan Primary Summit on Wednesday at the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento.

On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. -- George Orwell, 1984.

This week's bombing in Bangkok showed the power of the police using video surveillance -- in that within 24 hours the first suspect was uncovered, followed by nine more within just a few days.

Many Americans are uneasy about and opposed to the direction, tone, and nature of two-party politics. That comes despite America’s wealth, dynamic economy, and prospects for future prosperity.

WASHINGTON -- With the crowded presidential field, which features 22 Democratic and Republican candidates, not a great deal of attention has been paid to the 585 individuals officially registered on the FEC website as 2016 hopefuls.

Harvard Professor and possible Democratic presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig argues that progressives are not thinking big enough. In a Wednesday column on Huffington Post, Lessig explains that "another partisan election is not going to change America." If we truly want to enhance democracy in America, we need to "un-rig the rigged system first."

On August 15, delegates from the Utah Republican Party gathered to vote on measures ranging from how candidates compete for the party’s nomination to who can be rightfully considered a party member.

The changes adopted within Utah’s GOP could affect whether candidates not backed by the state’s dominant party will be able to compete for elected office.

This has been a bad couple of weeks for mobile phone security as several major iPhone vulnerabilities were revealed this week which allow a malicious external website to compromise your phone when it is viewed, either in Safari or another app that renders HTML (and there are many, many apps that do).

As such, it is imperative that iPhone users apply the latest updates for iOS as soon as possible. The fixed version is iOS 8.4.1, so any iPhones running iOS versions less than 8.4.1 are vulnerable.

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has transferred $250,000 to the Republican Party of Kentucky as a down payment for a presidential caucus he wants the party to conduct in March, according to an email sent to the party's central committee Monday.

Paul is seeking the party's help in bypassing a state law that prohibits him from running for president and for re-election to his Senate seat on the same ballot in 2016.

In the first presidential primary debate, Donald Trump claimed that Republicans would not be engaging with the immigration debate if it weren’t for his bravado.

Most of my academic training has been in economics and business school, and one thing that never ceases to surprise me is how many people neglect to realize that most of economic and business theory (as well as the political opinions they create) is a utopian dreamworld -- something that could never happen in the real world.