Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed concern over the "crazy gerrymandering" that is taking place ...

Part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act says that you cannot gerrymander based on the color of someone's skin.

Here are 10 things to know as Virginia sets in motion a process to initiate a new redrawing of congressional lines in time for next year’s elections.

A mapmaker hired by Texas Republicans to design a functionally racist gerrymander of the state’s congressional districts testified in federal court Wednesday on the role that Trump administration ...

Imagine playing a board game with friends. The rules are clear, the playing field is even, and everyone has a fair shot at winning. Now imagine one player quietly shifts the rules mid-game — moving ...

Walter Williams, the late George Mason University economist, liked to caution against citing racial discrimination as a blanket explanation for statistical disparities among groups. “This is not to ...

Gerrymandering, defined in the context of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a political party, group or socioeconomic class ...

The day after the Utah Legislature voted on its preferred congressional map as part of the state’s court-ordered redistricting process, plaintiffs in the state’s redistricting lawsuit filed a new ...

Having Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in charge is a very, very bad thing for our country and our world. If you agree with me on that, then I hope you will also agree with me on this: Vote for ...

A North Carolina lawmaker studies a district map during a joint select committee meeting on redistricting, July 26, 2017, in Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina legislators are once again mapping the state’s ...

Democrats still hold four of the state’s 14 congressional seats — despite relative parity on overall vote totals — which has apparently led GOP officials in Raleigh to conclude that a bad map can ...