How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

Fifty days later, the assault on the Spanish border also marks the beginning of the political term in the European Union ...

How does the history of cartography also map its evolving utility, from navigation to revenue collection, effective administration, and territorial management? Why is the ‘digital twin’ seen as the ...

For most of my career as a political scientist, representation was the central theme of my teaching and research. Early on, I studied how legislators understood their responsibilities to constituents ...

Judges may not write a letter to their Congressional representatives in response to high-profile and intensely controversial federal immigration actions in Minneapolis, asking the legislators to take ...

This report explains how political weighting works, how Pew Research Center does it, and some of its limitations.

Weighting on a political outcome can improve accuracy, but it does not fully remove the error in polls. That’s why rigorous ...

Elaine Kamarck and Jordan Muchnick analyze the 2026 primaries, revealing what candidates addressed—and avoided—ahead of November.

The idea of government-mandated girlfriends is leaking out of the incel community and inspiring discourse thanks to a viral ...