Both CNN/ORC and the Washington Post released polls this week with a strong warning for Democrats: half of Americans don't like Hillary Clinton.

When the so-called bastions of the "liberal press" start spreading doom and gloom, politicos on both sides of the aisle had better start taking notice.

On Thursday, U.S. Representative John Delaney (D-Md.) re-introduced the Open Our Democracy Act. The bill reforms how primary elections are conducted for House and Senate elections, creates a path for the nationwide use of independent redistricting commissions, and makes Election Day a national holiday.

New research on the effects of California's nonpartisan, top-two primary suggests that many California voters are responding positively to the new election system, though opinions still vary greatly. In their book, Nonpartisan Primary Election Reform, authors R. Michael Alvarez and J.

Denver, Colo. -- Across the country, independent/nonpartisan organizations committed to fundamental political reform and equal rights for every voter are hard at work fighting the good fight on a wide variety of ambitious and necessary projects.

On June 1, the Supreme Court handed down an overwhelming 8-1 ruling against Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating against Samantha Elauf, a practicing Muslim, for wearing a headscarf under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Abercrombie refused to hire Elauf because scarfs or head pieces of any kind violate their corporate dress code.

Various groups have reacted to this decision in a variety of ways -- some herald it as a victory for religious freedom, while some interpreted it as an assault on Christian traditions.

It is time for America to rethink its position on grass.

While one notorious weed commands attention from the media, the government, and the public, another less assuming grass is quietly exacerbating some of America’s most pressing issues — without any partisan baggage.

reported Tuesday that Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and 2016 presidential candidate, wants to completely change the way we look at campaign finance in the United States, and is offering a unique solution to fix the current system.

The U.S. Senate passed the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday in a 67-32 vote. The vote came 36 hours after controversial provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act expired. The new law renews these provisions, including the much debated Section 215, but supporters say it significantly reins in the government's surveillance powers.

Most attempts to block these freedoms have come primarily during wartime and in the interest of national security.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's (R) so-called tea party experiment in supply side economics has thrust the normally quiet politics of solidly-red Kansas into the national spotlight.