Gerrymandering

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court created a new Congressional map for Pennsylvania. This map erases the extreme gerrymanders from the previous map and makes several districts more competitive. You can read about the new map here.

The New York Times has a fascinating interactive map feature which compares the old Pennsylvania districts with the new ones. Check it out here.

Finally, here is some interesting analysis from The New York Times about what the new map means for Democrats and Republicans.

#NeverAgain

Christine Yared is a 14-year-old freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. She wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times, which you can read here.

Two sixteen-year-old girls organized a "lie-in" in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Monday. You can read about the event in The Washington Post here.

Emma Gonzalez helped galvanize the #NeverAgain movement with her heartfelt speech at a Fort Lauderdale rally. If you have not watched the speech you can watch it here.

How did the teenage survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organize their movement so quickly? These two pieces cover the origins of the movement: the first is from Buzzfeed and the second is from The New Yorker.