In America, critics say, voters don’t pick their politicians: Politicians pick their voters. It’s a cynical way of describing the American process of drawing political boundaries. In most states, politicians carve up districts and can sort voters in ways that benefit themselves electorally. As awareness about gerrymandering has grown, reformers have increasingly called for that […]
An athlete lives at the whim of a sport’s rules, and when those rules change, so can their career. This happened to Mike Bridges. You’ve probably never heard of him, but he’s one of the strongest men who’s ever lived, and he was a powerlifting god in the early 1980s. Bridges weighed just 173 pounds, […]
An athlete lives at the whim of a sport’s rules, and when those rules change, so can their career. This happened to Mike Bridges. You’ve probably never heard of him, but he’s one of the strongest men who’s ever lived, and he was a powerlifting god in the early 1980s. Bridges weighed just 173 pounds, […]
