- Power Causes Brain Damage (The Atlantic)
Civics
Who Rules the United States?
- Is the U.S. Political System Really ‘Structurally Biased’? (National Review)
- Graduates of Elite Universities Dominate the New York Times and Wall Street Journal (The Intercept)
- Inside the shadowy Bilderberg summit of the global liberal elite (Daily Mail)
- The Long Baby Boomer Reign Isn’t Ending Just Yet (Bloomberg)
- No, America Is Not an Oligarchy Run by the Ultra-Rich (The Daily Signal)
- Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful (Common Dreams)
- Billionaires trying to fix US poverty are the sign of a failed system (Quartz)
Political Parties and Campaigns
- For Female Candidates, Harassment and Threats Come Every Day (The New York Times)
- Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America? (The Los Angeles Times)
- Stress in America Survey (American Psychological Association)
- The America Donald Trump Is Inheriting, By The Numbers (NPR)
Debt
- The U.S. is Broke - an alternative explanation (Seeking Alpha)
- How Did America Go Bankrupt? (Zero Hedge)
- The national debt, explained (The Week)
Taxation
- Among developed nations, Americans’ tax bills are below average (Pew Research Center)
- A closer look at who does (and doesn’t) pay U.S. income tax (Pew Research Center)
- Taxation and Global Comparison (CNBC)
- Sorry, America: You're Not Overtaxed (Inc)
- Here's where the government gets the money it spends in all 50 US states (CNBC)
Inequality
- College-Educated Voters Are Ruining American Politics (The Atlantic)
- How America Treats Its Own Children (The Atlantic)
- Keeping the Poor Poor: How Government Automates Inequality (The Progressive)
- How segregation leads to racist voting by whites (Vox)
Voting Trends
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All Latinos don’t vote the same way – their place of origin matters (The Conversation)
- I asked people why they don’t vote, and this is what they told me (The Conversation)
- The Myth of the Lazy Voter – Structural Barriers to Voting (The New York Times)
- Why Is It So Hard to Vote in America? (Foreign Policy)
- Culling Voter Rolls: Battling Over Who Even Gets to Go to the Polls (The New York Times)
- Do Men Have It Easier? Your Politics Might Determine How You Answer (NPR)
- Report Reflects on the Status of Black Women in the U.S. (Teen Vogue)
- Check out our comprehensive 115th Congress guide, with election data, demographics, and member stats (Daily Kos)
- Allowing felons to vote could change American politics (Business Insider)
Vedge Issues
- Does college turn people into liberals? (The Conversation)
- Why Geography Stops Gun Control From Taking Root (NBC News)
- 71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Silenced Discussions Society Needs to Have, 58% Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share (Cato Institute)
- Fury fuels the modern political climate in US (The Hill)
- New poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban centers (Denver Post)
Universal Basic Income
- Support mounts for universal basic income programs (CNBC)
- A California city is launching the first US experiment in basic income (Business Insider)
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Universal Basic Income (Futurism)
- What If Everyone Got a Monthly Check From the Government? (Bloomberg)
Government Agencies
- This troubled, covert agency is responsible for trucking nuclear bombs across America each day (LA Times)
Military
- The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains (The Atlantic)
- I Was Sexually Assaulted by Another Marine, The Corps Didn’t Believe Me (The New York Times)
- Systemic Sexism in the Military (The Society Pages)
- Reports of Sexual Assault in the Military Rise by 10 Percent (New York Times)
- Three quarters of young Americans couldn't join the military if they wanted to (Hot Air)
- 'Less Than 30% of Young Men and Women' Qualified to Join Military (CNS News)
- Inside the world's first all-female special forces unit (NBC News)
- Tomorrow Soldier: How The Military Is Altering the Limits of Human Performance (Defense One)
War
- Why It’s No Longer Possible for Any Country to Win a War (Time)
- Chronicler of Islamic State 'killing machine' goes public (Associated Press)
- Study of Iraq fighters reveals what makes people prepared to die for a cause (The Guardian)
- The secret lives of IS fighters (BBC)
Veterans
- Shocking tales behind female veterans descent as America's fastest-growing homeless group (Mirror)
- The Veteran Trying to Teach His Students About His War (The Atlantic)
Corruption
Globalization Policies
- Globalization and NAFTA Caused Migration from Mexico (Political Research Associates)
- The Uprising of the Global Middle Class (The Atlantic)
- Go Back Home
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Despite concerns about global democracy, nearly six-in-ten countries are now democratic (Pew Research Center)