This book explores how social identities of various kinds have spurred the divisiveness of our politics, and how politics has itself become a kind of social identity.
It's so crazy, it just might work.
Solidarity reporting calls on journalists to push beyond reporting the easy soundbite from an official press release in order to do the work of representing people experiencing injustice.
A Court that used to prize careful deliberation now seems to care more about making big change quickly.
These emergency rulings – short, unsigned and issued without hearing oral arguments – undermine the public’s faith in the integrity of the court
What Trump’s defenders miss: impeachment only works when it’s partisan.
To gauge where this type of gerrymandering is taking place and its magnitude, this report used election results [from 2012, 2014, and 2016] in states with six or more congressional districts to assess the extent and the durability of “partisan bias” — the degree of systematic advantage one party receives over another in turning votes into seats . . . It also looked at the relationship between the body that drew the maps and the degree of bias observed.
Theoretically, a bill or nomination could pass out of the Senate with the support of senators representing only 16.2 percent of the population.
In certain medical fields, large majorities of physicians tend to share the political leanings of their colleagues, and a study suggests ideology could affect some treatment recommendations.
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