Although the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that some forms of race-based gerrymandering are unconstitutional, it has avoided taking a stand on partisan gerrymandering. That may change this coming October, when the court will hear a case about whether the partisan drawing of legislative boundaries in Wisconsin has gone too far.

The conflict between government and the Fourth Estate that Americans now witness is illuminating the relationship between politics and information. What happens to a representative political system when truth and reality become contested, or even subverted, by actors within the institution itself? Political chaos is a sorry and dangerous state of affairs in a nation’s life....

A lock of hair: symbol, simultaneously, of life and death. It will outlive you, and it may tell stories after you’ve gone.

Gerrymandering, the drawing of boundaries of electoral districts, is shaping up to be one of the most contentious issues in politics for the next several years, partly due to increased interest on the part of the United States Supreme Court in cases involving congressional districts in Wisconsin and North Carolina. Here’s a guide to gerrymandering and...

In which Luke Bohuslav and Ryan Brown prove that opposites do, indeed, attract, and make for a heckuva doubles team in tennis.

Using a testing technique known as Environmental DNA, Demian Willette, a biology instructor in the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering, and his students study fish fraud — the mislabeling of fish species — as a way of improving the traceability of fish in the food supply chain.