The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case out of Wisconsin that could lead to a landmark decision determining whether or not Republicans or Democrats have drawn their state’s electoral districts in a way that gives their candidates an unconstitutional advantage.

The case, Gill v. Whitford, comes to the court after a panel of three federal judges ( Read more... )

Meet the Math Professor Who’s Fighting Gerrymandering With Geometry

Chronicle of Higher Education · by Shannon Najmabadi · February 22, 2017

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A major ruling with national implications.


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Donald Trump is the president-elect, governing alongside a Republican Congress and a soon-to-be conservative Supreme Court. But some, like Bloomberg View columnist Conor Sen, are offering liberals a bit of hope, arguing that Democrats could dominate in the 2018 midterms elections. Then they could limit Trump’s ability to enact his terrifying ( Read more... )

Stephen Colbert interviews President Obama for his next job, works in Trump jokeAfter he leaves office, President Obama might spend at least part of his time working to reform America's redistricting systems, it emerged Monday. On Monday's Late Show, Stephen Colbert helped Obama prepare for... well, some sort of transition. "There are a lot of ( Read more... )

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While the eyes of the nation were turned towards Washington D.C. to watch our first African-American president be sworn in for his second term, Republicans in Richmond, Va., quietly took advantage of the absence of a civil rights leader among their ranks in order to take control of the state Senate in the 2015 elections.The state Senate is split 20 ( Read more... )

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Why Have Hackers Hit Russia's Most Popular Blogging Service?

By Simon Shuster / Moscow Thursday, Apr. 07, 2011

If the hacker attacks that hit Russia's top blogging service, LiveJournal, this week are anything to go by, the unwritten rules of cyber warfare no longer apply. Instead of the focused assaults hackers often used to force down the websites ( Read more... )

by Rep. Peter Barca, Wisconsin Assembly Minority LeaderA recent poll by the University of Wisconsin shows not only that a vast majority of Wisconsinites disapprove of Gov. Walker and his fellow by Republicans in the state legislature, but also that 65% of Wisconsinites now believe that our state government is run for a few big interests rather than ( Read more... )