Yes, Virginia, there can be a conversation about gun control. Think Progress has identified five regulations that NRA members have said they support. According
Category: Good government
Blueprint for a federal takeover of national elections
Some Democrats in the last election had a hard time voting. Republicans, like Secretary of State John Husted of Ohio, worked overtime, using a
Our recent history of “Voting Wars”
“Procedures and equipment vary from county to county, with the result that voters’ chances of casting a vote in a statewide election that will
Why government should be—and is, quite effectively—involved in health care
What do conservatives mean when they say, “Government should be kept out of health care as much as possible?” as a Missouri State Representative
Lame duck to-do list: Extend unemployment benefits
It’s not just the much-vaunted Bush tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of 2012. Federal emergency unemployment benefits are also
Obama: Calm, cool, and hated for it
Back on August 8, 2012, I published a piece on Occasional Planet in which I pondered the intense hatred that President Barack Obama inspires
FEMA: another example of why states’-righters are wrong
The current conflict regarding FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is essentially about whether the federal government should have primary responsibility for addressing disasters, or
Psst! Wanna see what your ballot will look like this year?
Everyone knows there is an election coming up. (It’s on November 6, 2012.) Not everyone knows that you can see your ballot in advance.
How many kids are in pre-K and kindergarten in the U.S.?
In an era when there’s a database for just about everything, you’d have a hard time finding one that tallies up the total number
Clinton remembers poor as well as middle class
The official poverty rate for the United States in 2010 was 15.1 percent. There were 46.2 million individuals who were poor, defined as a