The U.S. Postal Service began piloting a cost-cutting plan in 2023 to remove the machines that sort and postmark mail from local offices and instead consolidate mail processing in regional centers. As ...

A pair of unusually heated Georgia Supreme Court elections grew even more consequential on Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme ...

Two redistricting experts answer your questions on the latest Supreme Court ruling that guts the VRA—did it kill Section 2, ...

Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County prosecutors have tried to block nearly every exonerated person who ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

The midterms are suddenly accelerating, with 12 states holding their primaries or primary runoffs and several more hosting ...

The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that ...

Howard Gwynn served more than three decades as prosecutor of Newport News, Virginia, but never faced any opponent over his eight reelection races. This summer, on his ninth reelection bid, he drew his ...

This article is part of Bolts’ ongoing coverage of how the threats to the Voting Rights Act may affect local political power; read our coverage from Mississippi and North Dakota. It is published in ...

When the supreme court in Wyoming struck down an abortion ban in January, it cited a state constitutional amendment adopted in 2012 that affirmed a right for people to make their own health care ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...