New York City’s outgoing mayor has directed police to issue more civil summonses, sparking concerns the practice is ...

Surina Venkat is a freelance reporter and student at Columbia University, where she serves as the City News Deputy Editor for Courts, Politics, and Policing for the Columbia Daily Spectator ...

For a brief moment, it seemed some noncitizen New Yorkers may gain the right to vote locally. But with the law struck down ...

Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep ...

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else ...

Editor’s note (Nov. 6): Cory Swanson, who was backed by conservative interests, and Katherine Bidegaray, who was backed by liberal interests, won Montana’s two supreme court seats on Election Day.

This story is a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization examining issues of equity and justice in the court system. Renwick Wells and Mickey ...

On enshrining abortion rights in state constitution, and overturning a ban (#3, learn more) Yes ...

Editor’s note: Arizonans rejected this ballot measure in November 2024. An initiative to protect abortion access in Arizona has gathered more signatures than it needs to make the November ballot. If ...

After years of being whittled away by federal judges, the Voting Rights Act unexpectedly survived an existential threat in 2023 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld what’s left of the landmark civil ...

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 ...