Democracy runs on mathematics. Tallying votes, allocating legislative seats and drawing district maps all depend on mathematical choices that can produce dramatically different outcomes. Math provides a common language that shifts attention away from partisan ideology and toward cooperation, neutrality and shared facts. It sheds light on democracy’s structural problems and provides a way to […]
Solutions
We explain what’s working, what’s not and what matters in education. Our stories are deeply researched, carefully written and rigorously edited. Our mission isn’t only to expose problems. We want to find out what’s being done to fix them and whether those solutions are working and can be replicated.

