As Donald Trump returns to the White House, he has built the most formidable foundation of Republican electoral strength ...

Over the course of his political career, 25 states have voted ... Perhaps most significantly in shifting the Electoral College map, Trump has tipped Ohio and Florida — the two most fiercely ...

It is not starting off that way. Instead, the military is back where it has historically not wanted to be: in the middle of political and culture wars that could erode bipartisan support and ...

Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" highlights the politics of map naming, sparking debates, social media snark, and mixed reactions globally and domestically.

Recent studies have introduced new algorithms that impose contiguity constraints in districting models, allowing for the creation of more effective and fair political maps. For instance ...

Trump said in his inauguration speech on January 20 that he planned to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the' Gulf of America' and ...

Fewer than four-in-ten teens (36%) say they know someone who’s transgender, and 28% know someone who’s nonbinary. As Biden’s term draws to a close, here’s a look at the federal judges the 46th ...

We’ve got the scoop. By Rachel Nuwer Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.

“I don’t understand why the Democratic Party makes the decisions that it does,” The New Yorker’s Jay Caspian Kang says. “I find that the more reporting I do, it’s actually more ...

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