Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, ...

Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: ...

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient.

A member of Spirit Lake Nation was elected to North Dakota’s legislature for the first time last fall thanks to a redistricting lawsuit filed by Jackson-Street’s tribe, alongside the Turtle Mountain ...

In Oklahoma, organizers have to race against the clock to get measures on the ballot. The state has the nation’s shortest window of time for collecting the tens of thousands of signatures needed to ...

Multiple Texas attorneys who specialize in reproductive health told Bolts that SB 2880 and its inclusion of language amending the state’s century-old abortion law could constitute an unprecedented ...

Still, that “egalitarian pressure” is felt very unevenly. For one, Indigenous Australians were largely excluded from the 1902 electoral act that gave other Australian men and women the right to vote, ...

The guide starts this Saturday, May 3, in Texas. The following two Tuesdays, May 6 and May 13, we’ll be watching Nebraska and Ohio, plus legislative specials in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. Then comes ...

Prado and his team aren’t law enforcement, private security, or even neighborhood watch, but members of Unión del Barrio (UdB), an independent Chicano political organization. The group is working to ...