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Evidence shows Black candidates can win elections in majority-white congressional districts.
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Five scholars explain different aspects of the history, workings and effects of the Electoral College.
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The Electoral College ignores a key democratic principle: one person, one vote.
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Most methods of determining whether electoral maps are fair require a lot of math and some tough computation. But there…
High-profile media figures are defecting to Substack, where readers will have to pay a subscription to read their work.…
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As social media platforms fight Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, online archives offer another possible approach: direct…