In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds ...

The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump ...

After driving five hours to visit her son in prison, Anita Wills, 80, found herself in an impossible situation: fish her bra ...

The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract ...

When Danny Tarkenton learned that federal agents had shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, she felt concerned that her local officials would not push back should ...

This story is part of Bolts’ series on sheriff elections this fall; read our coverage from North Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin. Leer en español. The brothers crammed their lives into backpacks.

This story is part of Bolts’s coverage of state supreme court elections in 2026; learn more. In December 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court delivered two key wins for voting rights advocates, ...

When Washington state voters approved new gun control rules in 2018, several sheriffs announced they would not enforce them because they believed them to be unconstitutional, prompting warnings from ...

Editor’s note: On Sept. 14, the Supreme Court blocked the new USPS rule that would severely restrict mail voting. The decision removed a huge amount of uncertainty from the midterms, though the legal ...

A dog at a polling location in New Hampshire, one of the states with September primaries. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Sipa USA) The 2026 primaries are reaching the end: The four remaining states that have ...

Connecticut has for years stood apart from most of the country, including nearly every other blue state, by requiring anyone who wishes to vote by mail to fill out an application asserting a specific ...

A pair of liberal attorneys say they'll be more aggressive in defense of democracy as they try to oust Georgia justices on May 19, as the Callais ruling may make state courts more pivotal. Two liberal ...