majority of Americans now say "yes." According to the survey's results, published on Tuesday, 52 percent of respondents believe American troops should be sent back to Iraq as part of an international coalition.

On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists dressed as Indians boarded three British cargo ships to destroy 342 cases of tea -- a "tea party" over a 90 percent tax cut.

Tea throughout the Empire had been taxed at 30-pence a pound, which had been reduced to 3-pence a pound in the colonies to combat sluggish sales and smuggling. But that wasn't good enough; we wanted tax-free tea.

fundamentally changed California’s partisan primaries conducted under rules determined by private political parties into a nonpartisan system in which the purpose of the primary became a public one in which the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, advance to the general election.

reported Monday that federal regulators are expected to draft new rules to govern short-term loans, including car titles and payday loans, which to date have fallen mostly under the jurisdiction of individual state law.

Last week, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a bill intended to protect Americans' privacy and online data.

On Friday, February 6, the Cook Political Report published an article on the impact the nonpartisan, top-two primary and independent redistricting have had on voter turnout. The author, Amy Walter, points out that with both reforms in place, voter turnout has not increased, and has in fact been on the decline. An article by Mark Barabak of the LA Times draws the same conclusion.

bill that would provide a regulatory structure for the state’s medical marijuana industry.

People's Daily News acknowledged the newly-elected Greek government's reversal on the privatization of several ports in the Mediterranean Sea. For now, this is bad news for China, but the country's growing influence around the world still threatens American economic interests.

The president unveiled his FY2016 budget that begins on October 1 and the price tag is $3.99 trillion. Obama likes to use the phrase “middle class economics,” but the GOP typically does not see the president’s goals as the best path forward for any income bracket. That is not entirely uncommon, but there are bright spots of possible compromise.