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“Bearing false witness is the worst crime that you can commit,” says a character in the most recent episode of the Amazon series "The Romanoffs".

Ranked choice voting gives you the power to rank candidates from your favorite to your least favorite.

The story of Irish-American draft resisters, African-Americans who defied the odds in order to fight, and women who found alternate ways to support the war.

The United States is not the only supposedly democratic country saddled with an undemocratic upper legislative chamber (ours just has the most egregious malapportionment), but Americans have, so far, been the least willing to push back.

The match now sits at 1-1 in this race to 6.5, and will likely stretch to the end of the month.

From both a theoretical and an applications perspective, any result other than the expected +9.8 m/s2 would be absolutely revolutionary.

The Legacy of the Wartime Wildcat Strike Wave

Jeff Sessions’ tenure as attorney general was vastly more detrimental to democracy and the rule of law than shuttering Mueller’s investigation could ever be. No one should be nostalgic for his tenure.

The Massachusetts hospital lobby spent upwards of $30 million to drum up fear and confusion in a campaign that strongly resembled an anti-union drive.

“The Department instead simply discarded prior factual findings related to climate change to support its course reversal,” the judge wrote.