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What are the effects of redistricting on fair representation in California's elections?

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led effort to block California Democrats’ “racially gerrymandered” congressional map on Wednesday. In an unsigned order, the high court denied an application filed by the California GOP to pause a lower court ruling that permitted the contested map to take effect ahead of the 2026 midterms. The party — […]

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A Gracious and Modest Punch to the Gut

For Instanceby rhina p. espaillatwiseblood books, 126 pages, $18 Dominican-American poet and translator Rhina Espaillat, at ninety-four, has spent decades examining life and then, graciously and modestly, punching us. The post A Gracious and Modest Punch to the Gut appeared first on First Things

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The Almost-Greatness of Donald Trump and Leo XIV

Reading—for obvious reasons—Henri Daniel-Rops’s The Church in the Dark Ages, I have been repeatedly struck by the truism that moments of institutional crisis demand genuinely great leaders. Movements, forces, trends. The post The Almost-Greatness of Donald Trump and Leo XIV appeared first on First Things

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