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House Puts Transportation in Partisan Crossfire

Emily Badger — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:33 +0000

Transportation used to be one of the few guaranteed areas of agreement when ideology trumped pragmatism in D.C. But that’s no longer the case.

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Overseas Troops Finally Get Fair Shot at Voting

Emily Badger — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:00:10 +0000

After decades of obstacles hindering the voting process, new laws will allow overseas and military voters to submit their votes in time for the 2012 election.

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Pirate Party Docks at Berlin’s Parliament

Melanie Sevcenko — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:32 +0000

Tired of the same old political cronies, Berliners have voted in the Pirate Party — Internet open-source activists who hope to use online systems to improve democracy.

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Conservatives’ Politics of Fear a Biological Response

Emily Badger — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:42:37 +0000

Researchers looking at how we fixate on threats uncover more evidence of a biological component to the red-blue divide.

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Supreme Court Calls For New Try on Texas Districts

Michael Fitzgerald — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:19:09 +0000

Texas Republicans won Friday as the Supreme Court rejected a judicially drawn redistricting map, but not for the reasons you might think.

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Who Owns Government-Funded Research Papers?

Emily Badger — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:09:30 +0000

The Research Works Act would prevent publicly funded research from automatically being available to the public for free. Private publishers back the bill, while open-access partisans are appalled.

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Republicans Like Candidates Who Look Republican

Emily Badger — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:27:40 +0000

Although they can’t put their finger on what a Republican looks like, when GOP voters think someone looks Republican, that candidate gets more votes.

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Obama’s Military Strategy Follows Our Predictions

Michael Todd — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:55:56 +0000

The complete makeover of the U.S. military debuted by President Obama and the Pentagon on Thursday looks a lot like the beast our Jeff Shear has been describing in 2011.

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OWS, Egypt Expose Limits of Town Square Test

Jeffrey Wasserstrom — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:25:37 +0000

Central plazas were key places for political action in 2011, but historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom says the Town Square Test fails as a method for assessing the divide between democracy and authoritarian.

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SOPA Debate Highlights Congress’s Ignorance

Emily Badger — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:00:23 +0000

The divide between new technology and what the government understands about it threatens the U.S., says Clay Johnson of Expert Labs.

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Calculating an End to Divisive Politics

Richard Korman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:19:47 +0000

Prolific political scientist Steven Brams has been promoting peace and fairness one algorithm at a time.

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Brams: Use Approval Voting in Presidential Primaries

Richard Korman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:19:23 +0000

Steven J. Brams says approval voting, in which voters can vote for more than one candidate, is a better way to conduct multiple candidate elections.

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Brams: Let Congress Select Super Committees

Richard Korman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:19:03 +0000

Instead of party leaders selecting members of Congress to form a super committee to hash out problems, Steven J. Brahms suggests full houses of Congress make the picks using the minimax procedure.

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Brams: Negotiate Mideast Peace With Point System

Richard Korman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:18:46 +0000

When rivals negotiate, Steven J. Brams' suggests using the adjusted winner technique, which gives negotiators 100 points apiece and for them to start the bidding.

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Why a Democracy Needs Uninformed People

Emily Badger — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:54:41 +0000

In a lesson taught by schools of fish, researchers determine that uninformed individuals are actually a benefit to democracy by sanding off extreme views.

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