• The House’s Republican Bias Is Gone. But the Gerrymander Lives. | Washington Post | Mar. 3, 2025 (with Eric McGhee and Christopher Warshaw) | Link

  • Surprise! America Is Less Polarized than It Used to Be | Washington Post | Dec. 9, 2024 | Link

  • America Is Less Polarized Than It Seems. Politicians Need Better Data. | The Hill | Sept. 26, 2024 | Link

  • Proportional Representation and the Voting Rights Act | Protect Democracy | Aug. 2024 | Link

  • Three Reasons Why NJ Should Cut the ‘County Line’ from Ballots | New Jersey Spotlight News | Mar. 20, 2024 (with Tyler Simko) | Link

  • Proportional Representation—Brooding and Omnipresent to the End | Balkinization | Dec. 23, 2022 | Link

  • The Partisan Implications of the ISL Theory | Democracy Docket | Aug. 29, 2022 | Link

  • How Congress Can Preempt the Most Dangerous Possible Ruling of the Next Supreme Court Term | Slate | July 7, 2022 | Link

  • The Novel Strategy Blue States Can Use to Solve Partisan Gerrymandering by 2024 | Slate | May 6, 2022 (with Aaron Goldzimer) | Link

  • The Grim Fate of the Voting Rights Act in the Hands of the Supreme Court | Washington Post | Feb. 9, 2022 | Link

  • Pay People to Vote | The Atlantic (Online) | Aug. 10, 2021 (with Jonathan S. Gould) | Link

  • The Supreme Court Showcased Its ‘Textualist’ Double Standard on Voting Rights | Washington Post | July 1, 2021 | Link

  • The For the People Act’s Missing Piece | Democracy Docket | May 10, 2021 | Link

  • Next Front in Gerrymandering Wars Will Be Whom to Count | Washington Post | Feb. 24, 2021 (with Jowei Chen) | Link

  • Congress’s Forgotten Electoral Power | Democracy Docket | Feb. 1, 2021 | Link

  • The Supreme Court Shouldn’t Decide Voting Cases. It Keeps Getting Them Wrong. | Washington Post | Oct. 29, 2020 | Link

  • Freeing Purcell from the Shadows | Take Care | Sept. 27, 2020 | Link

  • Conservative Groups Sue to Make Pandemic Voting Even Harder | Slate | July 6, 2020 | Link

  • Democrats Can’t Be Afraid to Gerrymander Now | Slate | July 3, 2019 (with Aaron Goldzimer) | Link

  • Kagan Wants Proof Gerrymandering Harms Both Parties. Here It Is. | Slate | Feb. 28, 2019 | Link

  • The Validity of Stopping Voter Suppression | Take Care | Nov. 14, 2018 | Link

  • Redistricting Reform in a Democratic House | Harvard Law Review Blog | Nov. 13, 2018 | Link

  • In Pennsylvania Gerrymander Case, Experts Can’t Defend the Indefensible | Philadelphia Inquirer | Dec. 7, 2017 | Link

  • What Virginia Tells Us, and Doesn’t Tell Us, About Gerrymandering | Los Angeles Times | Nov. 10, 2017

  • The Justices Have Questions About How to Fix Partisan Gerrymandering | Slate | Oct. 4, 2017 | Link

  • The Case Against Partisan Gerrymandering | Slate | Sept. 25, 2017 | Link

  • The Research that Convinced SCOTUS to Take the Wisconsin Gerrymandering Case, Explained | Vox | July 11, 2017 | Link

  • Beyond Ballots | New Rambler Review | Nov. 11, 2015

  • A Feasible Roadmap to Compulsory Voting | The Atlantic (Online) | Nov. 2, 2015

  • Redistricting Could Have the Most Disparate Effect | New York Times | Aug. 5, 2015 | Link

  • The False Promise of Black Political Representation | The Atlantic (Online) | June 11, 2015

  • California Fixed Redistricting; Will the Supreme Court Break It Again? | Los Angeles Times | Feb. 22, 2015

  • Here’s How We Can End Gerrymandering Once and for All | New Republic (Online) | July 2, 2014 | Link

  • The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014: A Constitutional Response to Shelby County | American Constitution Society Issue Brief | May 2014 (with Samuel Bagenstos, Gabriel Chin, Gilda Daniels, and William Yeomans) | Link

  • The Future of the Voting Rights Act | Slate | Oct. 23, 2013 | Link

  • Time to Get the Foxes (Illinois Politicians) out of the Henhouse (Legislative Redistricting) | Chicago Tribune | July 18, 2013

  • Dear Justice Kennedy | Slate | Apr. 1, 2013 | Link

  • Don’t Worry About the Voting Rights Act | Slate | Nov. 20, 2012 (with Eric Posner) | Link

  • Why the Supreme Court May Soon Strike Down a Key Section of the Voting Rights Act | New Republic (Online) | Sept. 10, 2012 | Link

  • Can Someone Put a Stop to the Insanity of Political Redistricting? | New Republic (Online) | Apr. 4, 2012 | Link

  • The Answer to the Gerrymander | Baltimore Sun | Jan. 9, 2012

  • Fox Can’t Guard District Henhouse | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Apr. 9, 2011

  • How to Halt Gerrymandering | New Republic (Online) | Apr. 1, 2011

  • Rank the Vote | New Republic (Online) | Oct. 1, 2010

  • Don’t Water Down Hope for Fair Districts | Tallahassee Democrat | Apr. 25, 2010 (with Gerald Hebert and Leon Russell)

  • Veil Thine Eyes | New Republic (Online) | Dec. 14, 2009 | Link

  • Britain’s New Supreme Court | National Law Journal | Dec. 14, 2009

  • Building a Bigger House | Baltimore Sun | Nov. 15, 2009 (with Martina Vandenberg)

  • Conservative Unease with Common Law | Philadelphia Inquirer | July 24, 2009

  • Keep Protecting the Rights of Minority Voters | Houston Chronicle | July 20, 2009 (with Paul Smith)

  • Resurrecting Bush v. Gore | Dissent (Online) | June 1, 2009 | Link

  • What Jefferson Said | New Republic (Online) | Dec. 1, 2008 | Link

  • A Fighting Chance for Redistricting | Los Angeles Times | Sept. 27, 2008

  • Four Out of Nine Ain’t Bad | New Republic (Online) | June 25, 2008

  • Not Too Hot to Handle | Legal Times | Mar. 3, 2008 (with Matthew Jacobs and Lorelie Masters)