Opinion

Independent authors share their opinion on a wide range of topics, from political commentary to less politicized issues that are relevant to the discussion. Articles in this category express the opinions of our contributors, not IVN as a whole.

Half of Politics Is the Refusal to Be Imposed Upon

One of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for which people believe they hold their political opinions and the real causes of their holding those opinions.

Typically, that gap generates another one – between the content of arguments a person makes for her political position and the real motivation for her holding that position.

When Two Parties Are Not Enough

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on AllSides, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the author.

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OPINION: Reasons to Vote Republican Have Never Been Clearer Since Lincoln, Reagan, and Teddy Roosevelt

Editor's Note: John Pudner is the President of Take Back Action Fund, which does not endorse candidates. Independent Voter News also does not endorse candidates. The views in this piece are the personal views of the author.

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OPINION: Forget Court Packing; We Need to Talk About Limiting Judicial Review

Judicial review does not appear in the Constitution. As former Justice Antonin Scalia admitted, “The Constitution of the United States nowhere says that the Supreme Court shall be the last word on what the Constitution means…"

OPINION: Forget Court Packing; We Need to Talk About Limiting Judicial Review

Joe Biden, if he wins the presidency, has promised to create a bipartisan commission to recommend changes to the “out of whack” American court system. The commission’s prime focus will almost certainly be the Supreme Court, which to Democrats is about as out of whack as it can get.

How VotePact Gives You Leverage Over the Duopoly

VotePact is a voting strategy that advocates that people vote for their actual preferences by pairing up with someone on the other side of the Democratic-Republican divide. So people can strategically vote for the candidates they most like without fear of helping those they most fear. Instead of effectively cancelling out each other -- one for Trump and one for Biden, they can both vote Libertarian or Green or whatever they want.

Why Facebook's Fight for Survival Hinges on a Smooth Election

Facebook is fighting to survive the information war. Every four years Americans get to pass judgement on the nation’s most powerful politician. Unlike many other nations we can, and do, remove or re-appoint these men on a regular schedule.

The US Must Free Itself from the Political-Industrial Complex

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The New York Times and has been republished on IVN with permission from the author.

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We Need Chief Elections Officials to be Umpires, Not Players

Editor's Note: This article originally published on Governing and has been republished on IVN with permission from the author.

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Letter to the Editor: It Is Time 'We The People' End the Plutocracy

We the people are not a commodity for our elected officials to trade for wealth and inclusion in a tyrannical plutocracy that funds their political campaigns. Corrupt elected officials are empowering a tyrannical plutocracy to prey upon their constituents with the same callous indifference cancer demonstrates to its human hosts. The time is now for we the people to take back control of our government and our country and bring to justice the tyrannical plutocracy and their sycophants in our nation’s capital.

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