Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme ...

New Mexico lawmakers banned life without parole for juveniles. But an opinion by the attorney general and parole board ...

How are the new maps changing the midterms? Why are courts not doing more? Would proportional representation help? We’ve got ...

The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and ...

When the U.S. Department of Justice uncovered a pattern of civil rights abuses and racial discrimination by Trenton’s police department in 2024, the findings came as no surprise to City Council Vice ...

At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the ...

Redistricting is on the political agenda of state governments all over the country this year, an unusual trend for the middle of a decade. Spurred by President Trump, Texas adopted a new congressional ...

Supporters of Eileen Higgins, a candidate for Miami mayor, outside Miami City Hall in November 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have ...

It’s 4:30 pm on a Monday as Colell Steele stands in front of the closed canteen window at Neuse Correctional, a medium-custody prison in North Carolina. He’s lined up to wait an hour before the ...