Where lays the fault of America’s failing democracy?

By Robert A. Vella In a recent post on this blog detailing how sex has become a new part of Continue reading →

Nevada Marijuana Legalization kerfuffle highlights the corrupting influence of Money in America

By Robert A. Vella I was living in Nevada during the 1990s and early 2000s when the push for marijuana Continue reading →

Federal judges find Texas gerrymandered maps on racial lines (and why this ruling is ineffectual)

AUSTIN, Texas — Federal judges found more problems in Texas’ voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional Continue reading →

TPP is Not Dead: It’s Now Called the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA)

Think the ideas behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the so-called “free trade” regime are buried? Sadly, no. Definitely, no. Some Continue reading →

North Carolina is no longer a democracy: report

North Carolina can no longer be considered a democracy, according to a new report from the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP), which Continue reading →

What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism

Amanda Taub was looking at her iPhone at 3 a.m. early this year — she was feeding her baby and Continue reading →

This is Voting in 2016: Armed Intimidation Squads, Purged Rolls, 868 Fewer Polling Stations

On Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court restored a Republican-supported law in Arizona banning political campaigners from collecting absentee ballots filled Continue reading →

Standing on Pedestals: The 2016 Election highlights America’s great fall

By Robert A. Vella America was founded on written principles, good ones which have served to inspire not only its Continue reading →