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Only 37% of registered voters nationwide cast ballots in the 2014 elections, the lowest turnout in a national election, percentage-wise, since 1942, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, in Oregon nearly 70% of registered voters turned in ballots. Voters there legalized marijuana and passed an Equal Rights Amendment. Read more

The new US Senate is 80% male and 94% white, with an average age of 62. Meanwhile, in Real America, the national median age is 36.8 years, 50.8% of the country is female, and 27.6% of the population is nonwhite. Representative democracy! Read more

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was placed in quarantine upon her return from West Africa despite showing no symptoms of Ebola, will be released from the clutches of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie this morning and allowed to finish out her quarantine at home in Maine. To quote Hickox's boyfriend, Christie "messed with Read more