If our representatives in Washington D.C. do not address these overreaches by the President and his allies, then our rights ...

Once Brown’s plans are known, plenty of other Democrats will be ready to go, predicted Greg Beswick, a former Ohio Democratic ...

Introduction: Gerrymandering has long been a contentious issue in electoral politics, shaping the way legislative districts ...

Daniel Magleby and Michael D. McDonald have written this draft for ELJ. Here is the abstract: The Roberts Court has turned over efforts to limit gerrymanders to politics and willing state courts.

Alternative electoral systems—such as ranking systems or list-based proportional systems—could enhance representation in the ...

Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and have different experiences at school. At the same time, majorities of teens say it’s important to them that as adults they have a job or ...

The problem won’t be solved until Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court finally require all states, not just Illinois, to ...

Nick Seabrook breaks down the odd history and continued practice of gerrymandering—what attempts have been made to change it.

Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Davies is also a children’s book author and illustrator, currently publishing with Macmillan imprint; Neal Porter Books ...

For better or worse, November 2024 elections were a triumph for Republicans nationwide. And margins for the GOP in deep-blue ...

Major institutions that evaluate the status of democracy in the world have cited gerrymandering as a contributing factor to the erosion of democracy in the U.S. The Economist publishes an ...