Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to ...

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is ...

After years of attacks on voters’ power to take matters into their own hands, democracy advocates are going on the offensive in Montana and Missouri. They’ve placed constitutional amendments on... Rea ...

Just outside of Tallahassee, nestled among rolling hills and pecan groves of Florida’s Big Bend region, Jefferson County is ...

Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped ...

North Carolina Justice Anita Earls, a former voting rights lawyer, and Sarah Stevens, a longtime legislator, have been on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Technology that tracks personal information, including one’s location, interests, and online behaviors, has become commonplace. It’s as ubiquitous as the GPS in a car or a home security camera. But ...

Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen has twice now brought felony conspiracy and vandalism charges against Stanford University students who occupied a campus building in 2024 in protest of ...