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A few years back (we can’t say how many) we took an American Politics 101 class during our freshman year of college and learned all about the American tradition of Gerrymandering. Aside from the tactical partisan redistricting practice’s funny name, we didn’t think a whole lot of it, and the knowledge quickly sank into an [...]

With today’s news that Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was essentially auctioning off President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant senate seat to whomever could promise him and his wife the best career boosts, the Windy City’s historical tendency towards corruption has come full circle (how fitting that such news should break on International Anti-Corruption Day).
With that history [...]