While the news reports on Democratic Party fears of an electoral bloodbath, U.S. House of Representatives district maps for 2022’s midterm elections appear more evenly split than they have been in a century. What happened? A fair amount of partisan gerrymandering on both sides of the aisle, some help from the courts, and a lot of luck resulted in a […]
Could New District Maps Make This Year’s Midterm Elections the Fairest of Them All?
Should We Grant ‘Legal Personhood’ to the Moon?
Anybody with a bit of romantic imagination knows there’s a man or woman in the moon. Or maybe, if you’re from China, it’s a rabbit. Or, if you’re a member of the Salish Tribe in the Pacific Northwest, a toad. Wherever you’re from, you know there’s something special about the moon. It’s not just craters, rocks, and dust. It’s an […]