And with fewer competitive districts that swing between the political parties ... GOP-approved map “intentionally discriminates” against minority voters in violation of the US Constitution.

The electoral map ... Both parties were surprised by what Trump almost pulled off in 2016. And both are investing in the state this year. This is one of the most racially stratified political ...

By David Leonhardt Imagine if you were a foreign leader surveying the political chaos in the United States: For the first time in history, a party has just fired its own speaker of the House in ...

A recent unusual ruling by North Carolina's highest court has put a spotlight on the patchwork of state laws and court decisions that determine where maps of voting districts can be drawn to make ...

But it does mean that the philosophical positions that undergird the political parties should not be summarily dismissed without study. The second point I hope is made clear is that political ...

Pogo paraphrased the famous declaration by Admiral William Hazard Perry – “We have met the enemy and they are ours” – after the United States Navy won a great strategic victory over the ...

In his 1796 farewell address, George Washington cautioned the citizens of the United States against forming political parties, which he claimed could undermine national unity, stoke division and ...

reporters analyzed maps, census data and firsthand accounts to understand how politics trumped public process. Nithya Raman turned into a political celebrity almost overnight when she emerged as ...

That's left a state-by-state fight over the extent to which partisan politics can drive the redrawing of voting maps after the ... against favoring a political party when redrawing voting ...