The current national fight over congressional maps ties back more than 200 years to a legendary moment in Massachusetts ...

The term “gerrymander” was coined in 1812, after a political cartoon in the Boston Gazette showed a proposed redistricting ...

The opinions expressed below are Jon Keller's, not those of WBZ, CBS News or Paramount Global. As states like Texas and California work to redraw congressional maps in favor of one political party or ...

Some 250 years after the first shots were fired in the American Revolution, Massachusetts was among President Trump’s first targets when he launched this year’s gerrymandering wars. In July, Trump ...

Gerrymandering has been a standard tactic in U.S. politics since 1812, when Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that helped his fellow Republicans by packing rival Federalist Party voters ...