A special congressional election in Tennessee this week highlights the power and consequences of partisan gerrymandering ...

Next week, California voters will go to the polls to decide whether the state should authorize mid-decade redistricting to counter gerrymandering in Republican states and keep Democrats competitive in ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Monday announced that she was open to using gerrymandering to redraw her state's Congressional districts - referring to the practice of creating district lines in a ...

These extreme maps may not be likely, but they might soon be legal, with temptations to go further than ever before. By Nate Cohn and Jonah Smith You’ve probably seen gerrymandered congressional maps ...

America is quickly moving toward a system in which tens of millions of blue-state Republicans and red-state Democrats ...

There is no single origin point, or person, solely responsible for the electoral maps that today determine the balance of political power in Tennessee. Technically, the state’s nine U.S. reps ...

Many politicians, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and their supporters have forgotten their childhood lessons when it comes to gerrymandering: “The end justifies the ...

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In his farewell address published Sept. 17, 1796, President George Washington warned, “[p]artisanship is like a fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a ...

In the Sept. 28 editorial (“With mostly powerless voters, Illinois democracy hangs by an elongated thread”), the Tribune Editorial Board rightly laments the fact that Illinois voters are powerless ...