Could we maybe stop pretending that this is an easy question?
Now that we know that the NSA is analyzing telephone and Internet metadata, searching for patterns that might indicate terrorist activity, we are launching into one of those great debates that healthy democracies have to engage in once in a while to remain healthy democracies. Good for us. But let’s make sure that it is a real debate that recognizes the strengths and weaknesses the arguments and the profound complexity of the issues.
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The Pew Research Center released a study Monday examining the current landscape of nonprofit news organizations. The study polled 172 digital nonprofits that were started between 1987 and 2012, analyzing everything from staffing requirements to funding models.
As a Congressional Research Service report (CRS Report RL32612) characterized the process, the President of the United States is elected “…under a complex arrangement of constitutional provisions, federal and state laws, and political party practices known as the electoral college system.”
It's official. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now on Twitter, tweeting from the Twitter handle @HillaryClinton.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/344132945122054144
Governor Chris Christie announced that New Jersey will hold special elections in October to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Senator Frank Lautenberg. The cost of this decision has already become controversial, including the $12 million spent on a partisan primary, nobody will vote in.
In the Illinois 13th congressional district, a former Miss America winner is challenging one of the House's newest members.
With the recent May jobs report showing the United States added 175,000 jobs last month, there is not much attention on the much smaller number of jobs the federal government shed.