The map of swing states has expanded since the start of the year, but every state where the gap between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was fewer than four points remains competitive, and ...

Politics in the United States have become an increasingly polarized affair for decades, driven largely by the right moving further to the right. Observation of political polarization is not merely ...

We'll admit it: We're suckers for ways to reimagine the political boundaries of the United States. Below, we have a four-decade-old attempt from California State University geography professor C ...

If you’re a political junkie — or at least if you’re a conservative political junkie — you’ve probably seen the map. It’s a map of the United States showing the congressional districts ...

Re “Conservatives go to red states, and liberals go to blue as the country grows more polarized” (July 6): Few people, I suspect, would disagree with the notion that the U.S. has become incr… ...

Thus Mr. Chief Justice Chase, in the case of Texas vs. White, decided in 1868, speaks of each of the United States as “a political community ...

Viewed from the outside, the United States looks today like a great power in decline — with its political system buckling, corruption spreading, and state capacity collapsing.