NC voters appeal loss in 'election integrity' lawsuit challenging maps for Congress, state legislature
North Carolina voters are appealing their court loss last year in a gerrymandering case that Republican state lawmakers won at trial after arguing that voters have no right to fair elections. New ...
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How Names on Maps Get Changed—and Who Gets to Decide
The Gulf of Mexico and Denali mountain are having their names changed by the US government. Here's why that matters to locals ...
Opinion
Radosław Sikorski: Poland offers the template for prosperity
War is hardly ever a shortcut to prosperity. Over the last millennium, Poland experienced its share of invasions and uprisings against occupying forces. What finally brought us prosperity was three ...
As a meteorologist, I couldn’t do my job without maps and names of places. One stands out.
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...