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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • A Feasible Roadmap to Compulsory Voting, The Atlantic, Nov. 2, 2015

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

  • The False Promise of Black Political Representation, The Atlantic, 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, July 2, 2014

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • How to Halt Gerrymandering, New Republic, Apr. 1, 2011

  • Rank the Vote, New Republic, Oct. 1, 2010