Let History Be A Guide
Emotional responses after the 2024 elections are understandable, but they don’t begin to tell the whole story of what happened, why it happened, or what will happen next. Can history be a guide? Perhaps.
Ballotpedia
Our American Elections Mosaic
10,000 election jurisdictions oversee the races for more than 500,000 elected officials, from president to sheriff. It is a daunting task that’s become even more so in some localities in recent years owing to the spread of misinformation.
Let’s Talk Politics
The Pathfinder: Let’s Talk Politics Politics, religion, and money—the three topics we have long been told shouldn’t be discussed in polite company—but just about everyone does anyway. And that includes the places we work. Politics are often part of our…
Deepfakes
Deepfakes, an offshoot of Artificial Intelligence (AI), have become a pressing social and political issue that many state lawmakers are trying to address through legislation.
Getting to Work
We need to educate ourselves on all the candidates running for office where we live. That means finding out who these people are – which can be a surprisingly difficult thing for the average voter to do.
How can voters regain agency in our two-party system?
Does every vote really count, or are politicians only concerned about votes from particular states, and take the rest for granted?
The argument for ‘slow voting’
Like slow food, slow voting means rejecting the firehose of low-quality information in favor of purposeful, careful, and nourishing exploration.
Ballot measures are an important form of direct democracy
Our political system never rests, and that’s particularly true for the scores of statewide and local ballot measure campaigns currently underway across the country.
The Ballot Information Problem
Down the ballot, for those offices that don’t have big media budgets, coverage dries up. And with it, the information voters depend on to make informed choices vanishes as well.
How Big A Role Should Government Play in Daily Life?
It’s a question that transcends time, personalities and party affiliation. This year, the debate may reach a turning point as the U.S Supreme Court is poised to weigh-in on the role of what some call the “fourth branch of government”…