The current national fight over congressional maps ties back more than 200 years to a legendary moment in Massachusetts ...

The term “gerrymander” was coined in 1812, after a political cartoon in the Boston Gazette showed a proposed redistricting ...

My son and his family live in central Illinois. Politically, the residents there are apparently unlike many living in northeast Illinois. It seems to be a more mixed picture of conservatives.

Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes ...

Federal judges halted Texas’ new congressional map and blocked its Ten Commandments law, dealing Abbott two swift legal setbacks.

At the very moment that Gov. Wes Moore is leaning into partisanship and alienating centrist voters, Maryland Republicans are missing an opportunity to strengthen their case against his plan to ...

It is certainly still too soon to say what the effects of a spasm of mid-decade gerrymandering will be on the results of the 2026 midterms, but one thing we can say for sure already: It won’t have ...

As a lifelong Utahn, I especially care about issues that affect everyone. Proposition 4, also known as the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission and Standards Act, was signed into law after Utahns ...

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New York's Mayor-elect heads to the Oval Office, after convincing NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to stay on the job next year. Plus, is this the opening that Rep. Elise Stefanik needs to defeat the ...

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