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 ...

League volunteers were instrumental in the success of the ballot measures that raised the minimum wage in 2020 and restored the right to vote for those convicted of a felony in 2018. Last year, they ...

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 ...