Every time voting districts are redrawn—be it by state legislatures, judges, or commissions—the people with the pens make decisions that carry...
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July 16, 2018 Large Image
Students learn to do the math to counter gerrymandering in this summer’s Voting Rights Data Institute
July 9, 2018 Large Image
The rest of the planet is transfixed by the soccer—er, football—tournament. Here’s your explainer
Once every four years, sports fans around the globe are glued to their TV sets—at home, in bars, just about anywhere—watching the World Cup. It’s...
July 9, 2018 Large Image
Why do Republican voters disapprove of compromise more than Democrats?
At a time when political division is heightened and the...
July 5, 2018 Large Image
Tufts alum volunteers to bring technology and engineering education to Syrian refugee children in Jordan
The project seemed simple—create structures out of marshmallows and toothpicks, then test their stability on an earthquake simulator fashioned...
July 3, 2018 Large Image
Primate researcher Ruth Davis’s death under mysterious circumstances in 1969 is the focus of a new book
On July 12, 1969, a young American researcher named Ruth Davis followed a chimpanzee away from primatologist Jane Goodall’s research station in...