At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with ...

Local officials in Newark, Jersey City, and Trenton want civilian agencies that can investigate police and issue subpoenas.

Editor’s note: Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed this bill into law on Friday, May 31, 2024. Bolts reported on the effects of the reform in March 2025. Scott Deno, who oversees Colorado’s largest ...

Redistricting is on the political agenda of state governments all over the country this year, an unusual trend for the middle ...

Editor’s note: The GOP-run legislature passed this bill in September 2024, sending it to Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s desk. After Cooper vetoed the bill, Republican lawmakers overrode his veto in ...

Morris mostly lived in solitary confinement from the time he went to prison in 1978, the year “Grease” was released, until he got out in 2017—alone 23 hours a day inside a cell the size of a parking ...

Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportations” looms over millions of people who live in the United States. But the infrastructure to detain immigrants didn’t start with Trump. U.S. Immigration & ...

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last decade. They’re now set to gain new allies with the incoming Trump ...

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 ...

State supreme courts have come under a brighter spotlight as battlefields for some of today’s most pressing issues, from abortion rights and climate to extreme sentencing and ballot access. And ...

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 ...