Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren once called Baker V. Carr, the 1962 case which led to the “one-man, one-vote” rule, the most important of his tenure. That was saying quite a lot considering his was the court that handed down the watershed Brown decision...

The same number of people that would constitute the guest list at a small wedding gave about 30 percent of the money being spent to determine the next leader of the free world. And about half of the money raised so far has come from...