Conservatives around the country cheered in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion. But in Kansas, the anti-abortion movement’s drive to outlaw the procedure has ...

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting ...

Over nearly a decade in office, Burlington’s chief prosecutor Sarah George has pursued a platform of restorative justice and dialing back low-level prosecutions.

Below are the candidates who are running for county attorney and sheriff in Minnesota in 2026. Minnesota held primary elections on Aug. 11 that narrowed the field to no more than two candidates in ...

The water system that provides for the entire Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota has been contaminated with dangerous levels of manganese that have made the water undrinkable since May. For Lonna ...

Throughout Abron Arrington’s decades-long incarceration in Colorado, he often found himself in solitary confinement—not because he was causing trouble, but simply because he refused to work. He didn’t ...

Conservative judges on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last fall dealt a near-fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act, the landmark federal law, in the seven states the circuit covers. Breaking ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Bolts guides you through nearly 200 elections on the ballot this fall, across 32 states, and why they matter. The page is now updated with results. Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had to win over a far larger electorate than her predecessors; more Angelenos took part in choosing their mayor in 2022 than in the two prior mayoral elections combined.

Editor’s note: Arizonans rejected this ballot measure in November 2024. An initiative to protect abortion access in Arizona has gathered more signatures than it needs to make the November ballot. If ...