Answering Your Questions on Our California Redistricting Story

Dec. 23, 2011, 8 p.m.

We answer your questions about our California redistricting story.

Rep. Jerry McNerney’s District

Dec. 21, 2011, 7:45 p.m.

Democrats recognized that they could protect Jerry McNerney from being redistricted out of office by the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission.

California Redistricting Commission Emails

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

California Redistricting Commission Meeting Transcripts

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

California Redistricting Commission Public Comments

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

Map: A Tale of Two Districts

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:39 p.m.

How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission

Dec. 21, 2011, 4:38 p.m.

To get the districts they wanted, Democrats organized groups that said they represented communities, but really represented the party.

In Minn. Redistricting Battle, Powerful Players Clash — With Citizens on Sidelines

Nov. 16, 2011, 5:38 p.m.

An unfolding legal fight shows how difficult it is for anyone outside of political parties to have an impact on redistricting

Redistricting, a Devil’s Dictionary

Nov. 2, 2011, 10:08 a.m.

Redistricting is a hard-knuckled game, in which voters often lose. Here are the colorful, and telling, terms used by insiders.

Fair Districts Mass Proposals

Sept. 23, 2011, 7:41 p.m.

Fair Districts Mass says it is an independent group seeking better representation for minorities, but it has proposed maps that call its motives into question.

Florida’s 3rd Congressional District

Sept. 23, 2011, 7:36 p.m.

Congresswoman Corrine Brown, an African-American Democrat from Florida, represents one of the most irregularly shaped districts in the nation.

The Hidden Hands in Redistricting: Corporations and Other Powerful Interests

Sept. 23, 2011, 10:03 a.m.

Opaque redistricting groups are being quietly bankrolled by corporations, unions and others. They are working not to help voters in the communities they claim to represent but to improve the prospects of their political allies or to harm their enemies.

Our Academic Performance-Based Bracket Results: Totally Above Average

April 5, 2011, 9 a.m.

Our strategy of predicting March Madness results based on teams’ academic achievement faced its final exam last night, and we did pretty well.

Sports Desk Update: Academic Performance Uneven Predictor of March Madness Results

March 29, 2011, 9:05 a.m.

Our NCAA tournament predictions based on academic progress ratings show an inconsistent relationship with how the Final Four are actually panning out.

From ProPublica’s Sports Desk: Predicting NCAA Champs Using Academic Performance

March 17, 2011, 12:46 p.m.

What would happen in March Madness if the teams with the best academic performance won?

By the Numbers: A Revealing Look at the Mortgage Mod Meltdown

March 8, 2011, 1:37 p.m.

We compiled the most compelling data we could find to show how the mortgage industry and the government’s main effort, the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), have failed homeowners.

Loan Mod Program Left Homeowners’ Fate in Hands of Dysfunctional Industry

Feb. 17, 2011, 6:03 p.m.

The Obama administration’s flagship foreclosure prevention program has gambled on the willingness and ability of a troubled industry to help homeowners.

Dems: Obama Broke Pledge to Force Banks to Help Homeowners

Feb. 4, 2011, 9:48 a.m.

Candidate Obama pledged to support real change in bankruptcy laws to help foundering homeowners. But when it came time to fight for the measure, he didn’t show up. Some Democrats now say his administration actually undermined it behind the scenes.

Govt’s Loan Mod Program Crippled by Lax Oversight and Deference to Banks

Jan. 27, 2011, 11:41 a.m.

The Obama administration’s $75 billion foreclosure prevention program has been weakened, perhaps fatally, by a posture of cooperation—rather than enforcement—with the nation’s biggest banks.