Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient.

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 ...

Arizona Prop 139: On establishing a right to abortion access.: Yes: California: San Francisco Prop O: On shoring up local protections for abortion rights.: Yes: Colorado Amendment 79: On establishing ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system.It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

States with regular supreme court elections Alabama. When this supreme court ruled 8-1 in February that frozen embryos are children, endangering IVF treatments, it also brought into full view ...

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 ...

Although the Community Safety Team was called a “first-of-its-kind approach designed for officers to get to know the people and places within each of the unique neighborhoods," Brown’s promises were ...

How Voting Works in the U.K. and France: Your Questions Answered. On the eve of the French and British elections, Bolts responds to 10 reader questions on how they differ from the U.S. on voter ...