Welcome to Trade Secrets, TheWrap’s insider guide to making it in Hollywood. In previous installments, we’ve shared industry knowledge of how to get your film on the festival circuit or how to get a ...

Kimberley A. Strassel misunderstands a recent proposal by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to levy a highway user charge on electric and hybrid vehicles (“The GOP Wants to Tax ...

As Republicans break up majority-Black House districts, Democrats must decide whether to preserve seats concentrated in urban areas or push them into white suburbs to target G.O.P. seats. By Clyde ...

The Wyoming state House chamber. Under legislation proposed this year, its 62 members would be elected from 11 multimember districts in a proportional representation system. This February, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In 1965, the United States took a decisive step toward democracy with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the time, Black political representation was not just limited — it was nearly ...

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 ...

Gender disparities are prevalent in academia; the effects of motherhood, for example, are well documented (see Nature https://doi.org/qxwk; 2026). Gender-equality ...