Gerrymandering. Acrimonious partisan rhetoric. High-dollar campaign financing. Systematic barriers to full participation by minor political parties. Bipartisan support for international trade agreements, perpetual war, and the national security state.

In fairness, one of the birther's champions, multi-time presidential contender Donald Trump, has turned his birther ire to U.S.

Common Sense Action (CSA), a grassroots network of college students who are working to formulate methods through which Generation Y may traverse the many onerous political and economic challenges that they will likely inherit in the coming years, is conjoining with Run for America (RFA), a nonprofit political advocacy group with a similar mission, to form

The latest report from the California secretary of state shows that another 400,000 voters have registered "No Party Preference," while Republican and Democratic registration has dropped by 300,000 voters. Nonpartisan voters now account for 23 percent of registered voters, just 5 percentage points less than those registered with the Republican Party.

Read the full report here.

CALIFORNIA -- Political parties continue to challenge California's nonpartisan, top-two primary, with a claim that the top-two system unconstitutionally prevents third parties from having access to the general election. The latest challenge is on appeal to California's Supreme Court.

The defense is very simple and has been upheld in an unanimous decision by the California Court of Appeal:

On Monday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee banned the use of state money to travel to Indiana.

“As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.” - Preamble to the Libertarian Party Platform

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson was the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States.

I have a pretty modest income -- so modest, in fact, that my AGI is half of the median household income across the United States -- the kind of income that triggers significant subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.

Last week, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced his candidacy for President of the United States to over 10,000 students at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. His announcement makes him the first of a plethora of possible GOP candidates to do so.

An anonymous official told the AP Monday that a car with at least two men in it tried to ram a checkpoint gate leading into the Fort Meade Army base outside Washington, D.C. According to the official, a gunfight broke out after the men tried to get to the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), leaving one dead and one severely injured.