The speaker was the top anti-democrat and top anti-republican (no capitals) in America’s short 250-year history. He’s a well-known immoral, hateful, power-hungry, dictatorial, paranoid, failed ...
The group wore masks, shirts with expressions like “Dissent ... the band bemoaned the construction of oil pipelines, election gerrymandering and the overturn of Roe vs. Wade while one member ...
Here’s another assumption punctured by the 2024 election: that gerrymandering and Democratic vote-clustering give Republicans a structural advantage in the battle for control of the House of ...
Major institutions that evaluate the status of democracy in the world have cited gerrymandering as a contributing factor to the erosion of democracy in the U.S. The Economist publishes an annual ...
Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing the boundaries of electoral districts in a way that gives one political party or group of people an unfair advantage over another. Gerrymandering is the ...
Larry King (left) and Dennis Burns (right) hold up a large banner as the backdrop for speakers at the “Rally to End Gerrymandering” on the Bicentennial Plaza in Raleigh, N.C. on March 1 ...
Bob Orr, a former state Supreme Court justice, knows his way around the state Constitution and he thinks he’s found in it a way to disarm the most potent of political weapons – gerrymandering.
Yesterday marked four months since Election Day, but North Carolinians somehow still don’t know who will fill a key seat on ...
The gerrymandering also explains why Republicans are often excluded from key conversations. We’ve heard from multiple GOP state lawmakers that they have been iced out of budget talks.
But last June, the New Yorker bucked convention and paired a floor-grazing black skirt with a white T-shirt from the Row for a friend’s Philadelphia nuptials. “Certain occasions used to pull m ...
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