In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” faces a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No ...

New Jersey, New York, and Virginia—three populous states that are electing hundreds of state and local officials this ...

Ten years after Kalief Browder’s death by suicide, his story lingers as a reminder of both the horrors of New York City’s ...

The resounding defeat of Ohio’s Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would have undercut direct democracy in the state, received wall-to-wall coverage last week because it salvaged the prospect ...

Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, local officials in the Bay Area have worked to layer on more protections for immigrant families. In Alameda County, a diverse community that’s ...

Local advocates cheered Krasner’s primary victory on Tuesday, which all but assures him a third term, as an affirmation of ...

Some of Joseph Jones’ earliest memories are of visiting his father in prison. Then abandonment, when his parents left him in North Carolina and moved to New Jersey after Jones’ father was released.

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...

In the early-morning twilight on a cool Friday in April, a half dozen people gathered in a small parking lot in the San Diego neighborhood of City Heights. It was quiet, before the working-class ...

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last decade. They’re now set to gain new allies with the incoming Trump ...