The decision by Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to resume capital punishment aligns with a larger trend of death penalty states ...

In the early evening on Feb. 19, two Chicago police officers arrested a 40-year-old man in the Englewood neighborhood.

Inspired by the architects of Project 2025, the Utah legislature adopted a Republican bill to end universal mail voting and ...

Faced with popular initiatives to protect abortion rights and other measures they dislike, state Republicans are passing new bills that local advocates say will hollow out direct democracy. Organizers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Jenkins has volunteered to boost voter turnout on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus since becoming a student there in 2022. Jenkins, now a junior studying political science, has spent ...