Malcolm Alexander had been incarcerated at Angola prison 14 years already when he learned about DNA testing, the thing that ...

Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient.

We’re only days removed from the political earthquake in New York City’s mayoral race, but the election calendar matches on: ...

As always, this guide is not an exhaustive list of all elections in May, but just our selection of the races to monitor. Voters are also deciding city councilors and county commissioners all around ...

Noble Ingram is the audience engagement editor for Bolts. He focuses on facilitating conversations between readers and the newsroom and has worked for a variety of news organizations including The ...

Kentucky, Mississippi, and Virginia are selecting their state officials on Nov. 7. But hundreds of thousands of people with felony convictions are barred from voting in these states, which have some ...

You can also jump straight to the sections of this guide that break down the key state legislatures, the battle for Congress, attorneys general, state courts, state and local election officials, ...

In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native voters face a triple threat: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to ...

South Dakotans last year defeated an amendment similar to Ohio’s, which came on the heels of initiatives to increase the minimum wage and legalize cannabis and would have kneecapped a measure to ...

Still, that “egalitarian pressure” is felt very unevenly. For one, Indigenous Australians were largely excluded from the 1902 electoral act that gave other Australian men and women the right to vote, ...