An entrepreneurship major and graduate of Belmont University, Wes believes that small business, innovation, and creative thinking are required to solve problems and improve our world.
Here's one aspect of the independent ethos that guides how I think about politics, and what I think about: Whatever I'm not allowed to talk about, that's what I want to talk about. Whatever topic is off limits, that's the topic I
In this new series, Independent OGs, writers at IVN News will chronicle the lives and exploits of independents throughout history – or as we are calling them: Independent O.G.s (short for Original Gangstas). Of course George Washington was THE Independent OG of all American history, and it would seem
Sound the Independent Thought Alarm! We've got a live one here! It's funny that you won't hear just about anyone say it anywhere else, not even a lot of independent voters. It's funny because people treat the State of the Union Address
Hello fellow independent voters! This is your weekly Independent Thought Alarm: Hashtag Russian Bots Edition. In case this is your first time reading Independent Thought Alarm: These are thoughtful missives about controversial subjects with some thoughts that are so novel, independent, and outside the mainstream of acceptable opinion, that repeating
Hello my fellow independent voters and friends, and thank you for reading another one of my articles that just might get you escorted off the premises for making an earnest attempt at some critical reflection and independent thought about a complicated subject! When I say political parties are no different
On Monday, Donald Trump imposed a 30 percent tariff on imported solar panel technology, mostly targeted at Chinese solar panel manufacturers whose prices have become dramatically more competitive in recent years. This means whatever a foreign company's price is for solar panel parts, the U.S. will make
Happy Monday fellow independent voters! Hope you had a great weekend and are anticipating a good, worthwhile, productive, and imminently enjoyable next week of your life, and if you're not, that you're dead set on making it even just slightly more that way to whatever degree
It was probably only a matter of time before one of the very most politically relevant– and therefore most controversial – individuals of our day would run for a seat in Congress. Chelsea Manning made history when in 2010, as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, she accessed 750,
Vermont is poised to become the 30th U.S. state to legalize marijuana for medical or recreational consumption, and the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana through an act of the legislature, rather than by popular ballot proposition. A bill that would make marijuana legal
1. The two-party system came into existence at a time when people were still writing on paper with feathers dipped in ink. 2. And partisanship is as antiquated as that practice because we have better ways of accomplishing the same purpose. 3. Parties were invented because it was impossible in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbWiKKj1MY Video Source: CBS News The Associated Press reported Thursday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rolling back the Justice Department's policy of more relaxed enforcement of federal prohibition against marijuana in states where it has been legalized by popular ballot initiative
In the wake of the Republican tax reform bill, which has been hailed by supporters as the most significant revision to the federal tax code in 30 years, many Democratic states and city governments are looking for ways to work around the effects of GOP tax reform. As it turns