Gallup reports a record-high number of Americans identifying as politically independent, Rasmussen reported that congressional approval ratings are at historic lows?
While it's been a problem for more than a decade, a very small section of the 2014 NDAA seeks to address the issue of military members being discharged wrongfully for personality disorders or adjustment disorders. Many have alleged that this practice is used to sweep problems under the rug and now Congress wants some answers. However, what they will do with those answers is a mystery.
It is very difficult to escape the subject of electronic cigarettes as their popularity around the world continues to grow. The industry continues to challenge tobacco cigarettes and regulators seem more than willing to air their opinions in public, even if they are not always backed up by reliable statistical data. This prompts the question, is there a biased agenda against the electronic cigarette industry?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has investigated the electronic cigarette industry for over two years now.
Month 7 in Evan Falchuk’s diary of his Independent campaign for Governor of Massachusetts
A lot of people I meet are worried about the future. They’re worried that our politics and government are broken, and that our elected leaders can’t come up with practical answers for the serious problems that just keep getting worse. They worry that we are reaching a point of no return, where the very foundation of what makes America so much more than just a place on a map will be lost.
Rather than cook up new strategies for the new year, though, New York University professor Sherry Glied expects the GOP will serve more of the same talking points.
Fifteen years ago, at the age of 88, Doris "Granny D" Haddock began a 3,200 mile journey across the United States to advocate for campaign finance reform. On January 11, 2014, activists have united to continue her journey by walking across New Hampshire from Dixville Notch to Nashua. Their goal is to make sure every future candidate is asked just one question:
How are you going to end corruption in Washington?
Massachusetts passed the first wage law in 1912, followed soon after by thirteen more states and the District of Columbia. However, the Supreme Court ruling in
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) resulted in the defeat of a major provision of President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” and further efforts would not succeed until Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 1938. A national minimum wage was established at $0.25 per hour.
As previously reported on IVN, a coalition of third party and nonpartisan groups, including the Independent Voter Project, are combining resources in an effort to produce Open Debates 2016.