With Democrats clinging to just an eight-seat majority in the House of Representatives, even a small number of defectors can hold up the party’s legislative agenda. That reality was on vivid display last week, when nine moderate Democrats threatened to… Continue Reading
Image Source: Cass Bird for WSJ. Magazine Amanda Gorman knows the power that words can hold. “It’s often language makers who create a rhetoric for movement. They create a new type of dialect in which people can communicate shared dreams… Continue Reading
On Aug. 12, the U.S. Census Bureau released detailed redistricting data that states will use to draw their congressional lines. These new maps are important because they will not only help determine which party has an advantage moving into the… Continue Reading
Apportionment, or the process of determining the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives, happens like clockwork at this point. Every 10 years, the Census Bureau counts how many people each state has and then… Continue Reading
PUBLISHED Aug. 12, 2021, at 6:00 AM See how adding more seats makes Congress more representative By Ryan Best The number of voting members in the U.S. House of Representatives has been stuck at 435 for more than 100 years1class=”footnote”> even… Continue Reading