As conservative lawyers and judges have distorted the past to support their originalist arguments, historians are making an ...

Many small donors give in patterns indistinguishable from those of other classes of donors. Wealthy donors have a much ...

The abuse suffered by officials is fueling an exodus from the field. More than one-third of local election officials know at ...

Thanks to loopholes and lax enforcement, former president Trump is using campaign funds to pay almost all of his legal bills.

Preliminary FBI data, however imperfect, confirms a sharp downward trend in crime, undercutting attempts to blame criminal ...

Many of the justices seemed uninterested in addressing the facts of Trump’s case. Over the course of the nearly three-hour ...

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The for-profit bail bond industry is an overlooked but significant factor in pushback against attempts to reform or end the cash bail system.

By amplifying the value of small donations, public financing turns a challenge for women candidates — reliance on a broad ...

Since Dobbs, however, opponents of reproductive rights have maneuvered to tie voters’ hands on the subject. Arizona has ...

A lawsuit forced the Metropolitan Police Department to reveal how it uses social media surveillance tools to track First ...