People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California's law blocking people with past convictions for ...

Vote-by-mail was not always such a hot topic. It’s a longstanding practice in the U.S., dating back to the Civil War and even ...

Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North ...

In a break with the Trump era, the winner of the secretary of state primary strongly defends election systems, and the ...

Five years after a federal court ruling introduced unlimited spending in Alaska elections, voters there hit back on Tuesday, ...

A dog at a polling location in New Hampshire, one of the states with September primaries. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Sipa USA) The 2026 primaries are reaching the end: The four remaining states that have ...

News broke this month that the Trump administration is working on a plan to order the Census Bureau to exclude undocumented people in 2030, a move President Trump already pushed for ahead of 2020 as a ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

In December 2020, on the eve of taking the reins as the district attorney of Los Angeles County, George Gascón was up late trying to make a decision. He’d been elected weeks earlier on promises to ...

James Orr was in his apartment in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side one Wednesday morning in 2013 when he heard his phone buzz. “James, you have 30 days to move,” an Illinois state police ...

Morris mostly lived in solitary confinement from the time he went to prison in 1978, the year “Grease” was released, until he got out in 2017—alone 23 hours a day inside a cell the size of a parking ...