The problem won’t be solved until Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court finally require all states, not just Illinois, to ...

Opposition parties in Singapore called into question revisions to the electoral boundaries, accusing officials of ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as ...

Illinoisans deserve a fair electoral system. We say it’s time for the Illinois Supreme Court to weigh in on Illinois’ ...

Nick Seabrook breaks down the odd history and continued practice of gerrymandering—what attempts have been made to change it.

How do we know the House’s pro-Republican skew has disappeared? One common measure of bias, the efficiency gap, compares the parties’ respective shares of “wasted” votes: those cast either for losing ...

Orr’s lawsuit, now before the state Court of Appeals, argues that a legislative redistricting process that overfills what ...

The gerrymandering also explains why Republicans are often excluded from key conversations. We’ve heard from multiple GOP state lawmakers that they have been iced out of budget talks.

Major institutions that evaluate the status of democracy in the world have cited gerrymandering as a contributing factor to the erosion of democracy in the U.S. The Economist publishes an ...

More than 600,000 Illinoisans will have a chance to send a message to state leaders on the most daunting issues, including ...

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