If blue-chip art is Louise Bourgeois spiders, Donald Judd stacks, and Jackson Pollock splatter paintings (pricy work buoyed by decades of industry consensus), red-chip art is Damien Hirst dot ...

The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the colors were often the other way around.

Seventy-three percent of counties became more partisan from 2012 to 2020, including 224 blue counties that got bluer and 2,050 red counties that got redder. (The disparity in number isn't as stark ...