One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when ...

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they ...

As the midterms draw closer, President Trump and his allies on the right have increased their attacks on mail voting while ...

SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to ...

After a busy stretch in May and June, the elections calendar is quieting down. Only one state is holding its regular primaries in July. It just so happens that this one state, Arizona, is hosting a ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for district attorney and sheriff by the state’s filing deadline for major party candidates. (This list was published as of January 2026; unaffiliated ...

This story is part of a two-part series produced by Boulder Reporting Lab and Bolts investigating how Colorado jails continue to put people with serious mental illness in solitary confinement. Read ...

The article is published in a collaboration between the Arizona Mirror and Bolts. It’s a sweltering 105 degrees on a Sunday afternoon in June when Jillian Ryan sets out to tell voters in east Mesa ...

Solitary confinement is widely recognized as harmful to people with serious mental illness. In 2021, Colorado lawmakers passed a law intended to limit the practice in jails. Five years later, people ...