That time, as members of Congress were demanding the Bush administration show its case for war, anonymous officials told this newspaper that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq could only be used for nuclear enrichment.

Rather, leaks like the ones we’re seeing now ensured elected officials didn’t hear from the skeptics who got it right.

Trump is not quite right when he claims that, “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”

But President-elect Trump is right when he says we should not blindly trust C.I.A. leaks claiming Vladimir Putin tipped the scales to get him elected.

open-source mapping software

Many efforts are underway to remedy this political manipulation

The second reason is that partisan gerrymandering reinforces the hyper-partisanship that paralyzes our politics and governance

the more efficient geographical distribution of Republican voters across the country helps as well.

the new partisan map virtually guarantees Republican majorities in the Assembly for the entire decade

In an era in which partisanship determines the electoral choices of most voters and the behavior of elected representatives in Congress and state legislatures, it is essential that the collective will of the electorate be reflected in the partisan composition of legislatures. Yet this straightforward notion of partisan fairness is often undermined by partisan gerrymandering.

These include the racial realignment of the South, the ideological sorting of the two parties, the geographical clustering of like-minded voters and an increase in party-line voting.

Eliminating gerrymandering would not by itself dramatically increase the competitiveness of House and state legislative districts and reduce the historic level of polarization between the two major political parties.

Voting Rights Act of 1965 introduced a new basis of conflict into the redistricting process

1960s established the “one-person, one vote” requirement,

This Is Not a North Korean Crisis. It’s a Trump Crisis.

In a normal world

I don’t pay much attention anymore to what the president says because there’s no point in it. It’s not terrible what he said, but it’s kind of the classic Trump in that he overstates things.”

Trump himself

“the North Korean crisis.”

But America doesn’t have a normal, rational president. The real crisis is not on a distant peninsula in Asia; it’s on a golf course somewhere in New Jersey.