Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another. Good-government groups say that gerrymandering lets politicians choose their constituents,

As new technology capable of detecting dozens of early-stage cancer types with a single blood test hits the market, support for its use is building.

University of Utah launches $400K annual "Dignity Index" program rating political speech on 8-point scale, now expanding to 25 states after pilot success.

Rev. Jesse Jackson is well-known as an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement, a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., and a steadfast activist — but he has quite a past in electoral politics, too. A Dream Deferred charts Jackson’s rise to political prominence during his 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns,

Florida Republicans will need to navigate an anti-gerrymandering amendment approved by voters and internal divisions over the map-drawing process.

Democrats zeroed in on utilities and affordability to win Republican support in upset elections in Georgia and Virginia. Can the same playbook work in 2026?

President Trump has vowed to seek retribution from his perceived political enemies and to reward his political allies. We discuss how that focus is playing out at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors and other civil servants are no longer calling the shots.

More and more lawmakers from the South American nation are visiting Beijing instead of Washington as Trump and Petro trade barbs.

Financial analyst Michael Green suggests the official poverty line of $32,000 per year for a family of four in the U.S. is nowhere near accurate. He said the actual number is closer to about