It’s no secret that the state of the nation’s economy and party identification matter in most American presidential elections. Candidates know it, consultants know it, political scientists know it, and voters seem aware of the relationship, too.Source: The Ways That the 2016 Election Was Perfectly Normal...
Student groups have filed a lawsuit against the University of California at Berkeley, saying school officials violated their right to free speech when they canceled a talk by a controversial speaker last week over security concerns.Source: Lawsuit filed against UC Berkeley for canceling Ann Coulter speech...
The University of California at Berkeley's inhospitality to conservative speakers, the subject of a federal lawsuit filed on Monday, prompted a Twitter rebuke from President Trump a few months ago.Source: The Bipartisan Urge to Suppress Dissent...
That’s what Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams said this week about the state attorney general’s office and a probe into what happened during Colorado’s Electoral College vote last year. On Dec.Source: Colorado secretary of state on 2016 Electoral College vote: ‘They’re investigating’...
A state prosecutor said he will not bring voter-fraud charges against a Catawba County woman who said she cast an illegal vote for Donald Trump last year to fulfill her mother’s dying wish.Source: DA won’t prosecute woman who followed mom’s ‘dying wish’ and cast illegal vote for Trump...
Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. Back in October, Alec MacGillis penned a provocative New York Times opinion piece titled “Go Midwest, Young Hipster.” The argument was straightforward.Source: This voting reform solves 2 of America’s biggest political problems...
The views expressed are the author's own and not necessarily those of the Brennan Center for Justice. Donald Trump races toward the 100-day mark — so beloved by pundits and Napoleonic scholars — with a legislative record as parched as the Dust Bowl.Source: Legislating In the Super Pac Era...
The Supreme Court has long recognized that a group facing a realistic threat of harassment for revealing its donors or vendors has a First Amendment right to exemption from generally applicable campaign finance laws. The case establishing this principle, Brown v.Source: On Party Line Vote, FEC Rejects Continued Exemption from Disclosure for Socialist Workers Party...
Welcome to Teen Vogue's Woke List, a roundup of today's top headlines you have to know. The U.S. is "deeply concerned" about bombings in Syria and Iraq by Turkey. Turkey opened strikes on northern Syria and northern Iraq, resulting in the death of 70 "terrorists," according to Turkey.Source: Trump's Election Inspired Women to Run for Political Office...
The hand-to-hand political combat in House elections on Tuesday in Georgia and last week in Kansas had the feel of the first rounds of an epic battle next year for control of the House of Representatives and the direction of national politics as the Trump presidency unfolds.Source: Key Question for Supreme Court: Will It Let Gerrymanders Stand?...
