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538’s Gerrymandering Project takes a deep dive into redistricting and US politics
Check out 538’s Gerrymandering Project. It’s an exploration into the history, complex issues, and reform ideas surrounding the process of redistricting of the US political map (Constitutionally mandated to be done every 10 years) and gerrymandering, or redrawing political district lines in a partisan, political way. The site includes an amazingly thorough Atlas of Redistricting, […]
GPO Catalogs Declassified CIA CAESAR Series. Preservation still needed.
Good on GPO for cataloging this important declassified CAESAR series of 54 online titles from the CIA. These working papers are a collection of “declassified analytic monographs and reference aids, designated within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Intelligence (DI) as the CAESAR, ESAU, and POLO series, highlights the CIA’s efforts from the 1950s […]
FDLP Modernization Act of 2018 introduced. Take action now to improve the bill!
[UPDATE 3/21/2018: The CHA’s business meeting has been postponed to Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:00 am eastern. JRJ] On March 15th, a bill to “modernize” the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) was finally introduced. There is good news and bad news. • H.R.5305 – FDLP Modernization Act of 2018 The good news is that […]
Hot off the presses. Read AtG special issue: “Ensuring Access to Government Information”
Thanks to Shari Laster and Lynda Kellam (our fearless editors!) we’ve now got all of the articles (or soon to be all) conveniently posted to the Open Science Framework (OSF) wiki. So please enjoy this special issue of Against the Grain (v29 #6 December 2017/January 2018). These are all pre-prints for which the authors have […]
Republicans Seek to Force a Census Undercount
We’ve been hearing about problems with the 2020 census for quite some time. For those interested, the Census Project, an organization that “supports a fair and accurate 2020 Census and comprehensive American Community Survey,” has a ton of good information. This latest article by DCReport “Republicans Seek to Force a Census Undercount” has a goodly […]
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