Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, ...

We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: ...

Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

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

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

Audience engagement editor Noble Ingram is the audience engagement editor for Bolts. He focuses on facilitating conversations between readers and the newsroom and has worked for a variety of news ...

A member of Spirit Lake Nation was elected to North Dakota’s legislature for the first time last fall thanks to a redistricting lawsuit filed by Jackson-Street’s tribe, alongside the Turtle Mountain ...

In Oklahoma, organizers have to race against the clock to get measures on the ballot. The state has the nation’s shortest window of time for collecting the tens of thousands of signatures needed to ...

Some places in Colorado, including Denver, already print ballots in both Spanish and English for every election. But until the passage of SB 1, each city was left to decide whether to provide ...