Regardless of who wins the presidency, courtroom battles seem almost certain. Here’s a layperson’s look at the states and laws that may determine the outcome.
- November 2, 2020A look around the country on election eve. This is The Election 2020 Daily Report for November 2, 2020
- October 30, 2020Philadelphia is the birthplace of democracy. Will it die there, too?
- May 15, 2020In Slay the Dragon, a new documentary from Participant Media, we learn how a secret Republican project called REDMAP redrew congressional districts and guaranteed victory.
- May 13, 2020New techniques in districting allow legislators to essentially pick their voters, instead of the other way around. And in 2010, Republicans in several states redrew maps that guaranteed victory.
- December 19, 2016A teacher in a struggling steel town reflects on the kind of education the next generation needs.
- November 16, 2016More research is needed before we can definitively say whether or not voting problems affected the outcome of races.
- November 15, 2016The party of the working class is reaping the harvest of decades of neglect.
- October 23, 2016On Saturday, Donald Trump made a speech in Gettysburg that was nothing like President Abraham Lincoln's revered one. Michael Winship imagines the speech Trump might have delivered in Lincoln's day.
- October 6, 2016The Republican nominee is discovering that running on “the most anti-worker, anti-union platform of any party in the history of the United States” might turn off union members.