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

Some 250 years after the first shots were fired in the American Revolution, Massachusetts was among President Trump’s first targets when he launched this year’s gerrymandering wars. In July, Trump ...

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

Gerrymandering has been a standard tactic in U.S. politics since 1812, when Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that helped his fellow Republicans by packing rival Federalist Party voters ...