Chris Taylor’s win on Tuesday expands liberals’ majority on Wisconsin’s high court and locks it in through the next ...

Each of Oregon's 15 DA elections is uncontested this year, shutting the door for public debate around prosecutors’ policies ...

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started ...

The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life ...

Voting rights advocates have sought for decades to reverse Virginia’s lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions, a 124-year-old Jim Crow relic designed to uphold white supremacy. In a ...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing the ...

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...

Two major elections are taking place this week, within days of one another. The United Kingdom votes on Thursday to elect its members of parliament for the first time since 2019. France then heads to ...

Editor’s note (Oct. 5): Paul Young was elected mayor of Memphis on Oct. 5, receiving 28 percent of the vote in this 17-candidate field in the city’s first and only round of voting. Memphis is by far ...

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For years, a gang of police officers beat and brutalize civilians, arrest innocent people, plant drugs on suspects, and falsify reports to hide evidence of their crimes. They force their targets to ...

In 2017, Seattle implemented a democratic reform that accomplished the seemingly impossible, diversifying and growing the pool of people giving money to political campaigns, and making city races more ...