Is it finally time for proportional representation? With England now a five-party system, first past the post feels less and less democratic By Rachel Cunliffe Rumours of the death of first past the ...

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 ...

Abstract: Mining discriminative graph topological information plays an important role in promoting graph representation ability. However, it suffers from two main ...

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 ...

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AIKA (Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Acquisition) is an innovative approach to neural network design, diverging from traditional architectures that rely heavily on rigid matrix and vector ...

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.” ...

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 ...