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.

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 ...

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 ...

It’s 4:30 pm on a Monday as Colell Steele stands in front of the closed canteen window at Neuse Correctional, a medium-custody prison in North Carolina. He’s lined up to... Read More ...

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 ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Texas legislature began meeting in a special session last week to adopt a new congressional map that will, they hope, provide additional seats to the GOP in next year’s midterms. On Wednesday, ...