The redistricting frenzy across Republican-controlled Southern states threatens to resurrect some of the gravest racial injustices in American political history. Red states across the region are ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling to limit a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act this week adds a new bend to the winding history of Black representation in Congress, fueling fear from civil rights ...

Katherine Chui, a graphics reporter, analyzed two centuries of census and congressional data. Emily Cochrane is based in Nashville and covers the American South. April 30, 2026 The central tenet of ...

In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United States and growing political polarization, scholars and citizens across the country are reimagining how American democracy ...

Media shapes how we see the world — and each other. But despite growing representation of race, gender and other forms of diversity, disability representation remains strikingly low. Within this ...

Abstract: In the field of graph self-supervised learning (GSSL), graph autoencoders and graph contrastive learning are two mainstream methods. Graph autoencoders aim to learn representations by ...

As a TV writer in Los Angeles, I’m surrounded by people who talk, endlessly, about the power of stories. “Stories shape the world,” they say, as they gulp another oat-milk cortado. “Stories matter.” ...

The rise of rightwing populists continues across the west, leaving many wondering how mainstream parties can respond. Part of the picture is the failure of political parties to meet voters’ views on ...

Imagine a Congress where politicians of different ideologies work together to pass legislation reflecting what most Americans want. This isn’t hypothetical; it’s how Congress worked for much of the ...

When the new Congress convenes Friday, there will be fewer people of color in the delegation than in recent years. The 119th Congress will have 136 people of color, four fewer than the previous U.S.