2015-02-27 05:59
Depending on where you are in the world, either today or yesterday was a historic day. The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, voted 3-2 to approve regulating the internet accor… Read More
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A blog that analyzes current US policy and provides ideas on social, political, and economic reform.
2015-01-16 01:51
It has been some time that President Obama announced an initial relaxing the this country's closed door foreign policy with respect to Cuba. More recently, it was announced some elements of… Read More
2014-12-09 16:54
Recently, a report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding the use of torture by the CIA. It declassifies some of the information gathered and is available for public viewing… Read More
2014-12-09 03:06
I've been to many national parks. I'm very fortunate that a few good men like John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt thought it was important enough to have national parks. They were two of the many… Read More
2014-11-11 15:00
President Obama recently addressed the need for net neutrality in this country. His words are heartening, but real efforts need to be taken to make sure net neutrality becomes a reality, as… Read More
2014-11-06 16:00
Open space and park space are critical parts of any community. Along with clear environmental benefits, open space provides a community with a outlet to exercise, participate in other recrea… Read More
2014-11-04 09:00
Voting is your chance to have a say in how our government functions. While it often seems that each individual vote does not really matter, it is still important to participate in elections… Read More
2014-10-10 15:21
Malala Yousafzai is a hero. Shot by the Taliban simply for going to school, she has continued her activism for education in spite of the personal risk. She has traveled around the world spea… Read More
2014-09-08 14:29
A little while ago, I found a podcast by NPR's Planet Money team on a strange situation in a California Mall. The mall is split into two cities, each with a different minimum wage. Tak… Read More
2014-09-07 02:40
Transportation is a critical part of any sustainable development plan, a focus on which I believe is lacking in many areas of the United States, especially the San Francisco Bay Area, where… Read More
2014-08-22 21:05
While working on the next post, I decided to post this video from a TED Talk by Jared Diamond. It was delivered several years ago, but the lessons he's trying to teach the audience resonate… Read More
2014-08-20 17:09
The construction of taller buildings is a development issue that brings out many opponents all around the San Francisco Bay Area. Whether it is the erection of large skyscrapers in San Franc… Read More
2014-06-22 17:23
In the San Francisco Bay Area, much ado has been made about the current jobs-housing imbalance, which is one of the driving factors behind high costs for housing there. This is only pa… Read More
2014-06-15 11:00
Puerto Rico's status in the Unites States' political sphere is a bit complicated. It is considered a commonwealth, which means that the people of Puerto Rico are citizens of the United… Read More
2014-06-13 11:00
We are not just a political blog, as we often post on other issues, such as economics, technology, innovation, and science. I am personally a big fan of the PBS program NOVA, and today… Read More
2014-06-12 18:19
These are troubling time in California. Very troubling times. As many people around the country know, California had a statewide primary on June 3rd, 2014, on which Californians… Read More
2014-06-12 18:18
Ah, there's nothing better than a political shocker. In a field that seemed to get just a bit too predictable, the Republican voter's of Virginia's 7th congressional district handed th… Read More
2014-06-12 16:59
Last month, both FiveThirtyEight and CNN Politics did in-depth pieces on a curious phenomenon in the United States Senate. As the graphic shows below, recently there have bee… Read More
2014-06-12 16:58
The defeat of the Toomey-Manchin sponsored gun control bill, which would expand background checks on gun transactions is an unfortunate product of our divided political system and the extrem… Read More
2014-06-11 22:20
Many of the problems that have arisen over the past decades seem, on face value, to be about religion. While these conflicts, such as the ones in Northern Ireland and the Middle East… Read More
2014-06-10 01:37
In 2012, PBS Frontline aired a documentary on the effect of outside interest groups on elections. Though the program focuses mostly on the state of Montana, their findings do have wide… Read More
2013-09-18 20:26
Our education system is broken. We have students that are struggling and we are locked into a system that rewards teachers for hanging in there the longest, not ones that effectively t… Read More
2013-06-22 20:09
After the recent breaking news that the Internal Revenue Service was giving additional scrutiny to the tax exempt status of Tea Party Groups based on having words such as "Patriot" or "Tea P… Read More
2013-06-12 22:47
One of the signature political issues that divide the two political parties for a long time and continuing today is the role for government in managing organized labor. Last year, Wisc… Read More
2013-04-16 00:33
The Hamilton Project has recently put together an interactive simulator in which users can craft their own version of the US budget. By making selections, users can calculate how… Read More
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