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