Over the past year, Seattle has begun barring some residents from entering certain neighborhoods of their city. A new ...

On the first of this month, Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and ...

The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city, has embraced and endorsed the local sheriff who ...

Ask a redistricting expert about new GOP efforts to redraw Texas' maps, and the potential impact on Congress and communities ...

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and ...

The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.

Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.

Raúl Grijalva, a progressive member of Congress from Arizona, passed away in March, and the race to replace him starts in July. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP) We’re only days removed from ...

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 ...