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 ...

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 ...

Proportional representation opens the door to more choice because it becomes possible for a smaller party to win one seat out of five, for example. It would begin to break up the two-party system that ...

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 ...

MIT scientists found that what we see is strongly influenced by how alert or active we are. Parts of the brain responsible for planning and control send specialized signals that either boost or quiet ...

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 ...

For years, JavaScript has reigned as the undisputed language of the web, powering everything from single-page apps to massive enterprise systems through frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. But ...

Visual Studio 2026 has Fluent UI and ships with 11 tinted themes. Source: Microsoft Dev Blogs Microsoft unveils Visual Studio 2026 with deeper AI integration, faster performance, and a refreshed ...

JavaScript could be the most widely used programming language in the world, but for many developers, its modern version looks very different from what they first learned. With the advent of ECMAScript ...

Brain circuits are known to gradually form and develop after birth as the result of both innate biological processes and life experiences. Past studies suggest that the initial development of brain ...

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.” ...