In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to ...

A new Oklahoma law adds to a string of GOP-run states that have undercut direct democracy by piling on onerous new ...

Some 30 years ago, volunteers with Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign knocked on Patty Hernandez’s door in Denver.

After years of a near-full blockade on parole, Alabama is now releasing more people. But grants remain low, prisons are ...

Democratic U.S. Representatives Mikie Sherrill, left, and Abigail Spanberger are running for governor. Spanberger is running uncontested in Virginia’s primary while Sherrill faces five opponents in ...

Latoria George’s home was in bad shape. The apartment in Baton Rouge, where she’d lived for four years, had no heat and no ...

In late March, women who had suffered severe pregnancy complications and were forced to leave Texas for care sat in the state Senate chamber and implored Texas lawmakers not to make such situations ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is running for a third term on May 20. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Plenty of what’s on the ballot this May ties into national politics: JD Vance’s half-brother; ...

In the early-morning twilight on a cool Friday in April, a half dozen people gathered in a small parking lot in the San Diego neighborhood of City Heights. It was quiet, before the working-class ...

Some of Joseph Jones’ earliest memories are of visiting his father in prison. Then abandonment, when his parents left him in North Carolina and moved to New Jersey after Jones’ father was released.