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22 hours ago · VA officials outlined how a surge in PACT Act claims outpaced initial budget projections in a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday, days before a processing deadline affecting the ...
2 days ago · What is a government shutdown? What services are affected in a shutdown and how? Is the government preparing for a shutdown? How would federal employees be affected? How and why do mandatory programs continue during a shutdown? How many times has the government shut down? Does a government shutdown save money? How can Congress avoid a shutdown?
5 days ago · Constitutional government requires a division of power among several organs of the body politic. Preconstitutionalist governments, such as the absolute monarchies of Europe in the 18th century, frequently concentrated all power in the hands of a single person.
17 hours ago · Democracy (from Ancient Greek: δημοκρατία, romanized: dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') [1] is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. [2][3][4] Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive elections while more expansive definition...
1 day ago · Neighboring governors knock California plan to lower gas prices. California has the most expensive gas in the country. California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to force refineries to stockpile gasoline...
4 days ago · Libertarianism is a political philosophy that takes individual liberty to be the primary political value. It may be understood as a form of liberalism, which seeks to define and justify the legitimate powers of government in terms of certain natural or God-given individual rights.
2 days ago · Sectarianism is a debated concept. Some scholars and journalists define it as pre-existing fixed communal categories in society, and use it to explain political, cultural, or religious conflicts between groups. [1]
