December 4, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. In 2021, the Democratic majority in the Illinois legislature drew new district maps. Last year, citizens cast around 70,000 more votes statewide for Republican rather ...

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

Today's administration policies are dark, strongly resembling how Americans felt during a pivotal decade 100 years ago, when ...

Civil rights advocates fear that current ideological divisions and erosion of voting rights will have a dangerous impact on ...

Republicans threw a stink bomb into the chambers of the Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court. Citing the Illinois Constitution’s requirement that legislative maps be “compact,” the GOP ...

The Illinois Supreme Court looks poised to review the state’s legislative maps and whether they were illegally drawn to favor ...

While research from the 1990s on minority-opportunity districts did not find consistent turnout effects, more recent analysis from 2016 takes advantage of larger datasets (like state voter ...

For better or worse, November 2024 elections were a triumph for Republicans nationwide. And margins for the GOP in deep-blue ...

Belief in control rather than democracy is seeded in protests of the State of Union address on Tuesday night, says a North Carolina Republican hearing of ...

Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and I wrote this column in today’s Washington Post on the evaporation of the U.S. House’s longstanding pro-Republican bias in the 2020s. For more than two decades, the ...

You read that right. Instead of addressing the needs of Hoosiers, Republican leaders are pushing an unprecedented effort to redraw state borders and annex Illinois counties that voted to secede. This ...