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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a decision in Callais vs. Louisiana that even further weakens the landmark Voting ...

Roxbury is pushing back on plans for a new detention facility, claiming DHS is violating environmental regulations. Other ...

Twelve years ago almost to the day, Wisconsin liberals were giddy on election night. With all votes counted, their candidate led by 204 votes, flipping the state’s supreme court their way. But when a ...

Members of Georgia Stand-Up and We Vote encourage people to vote in Georgia’s 2022 runoff election for U.S Senate. (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) Four states are holding their ...

We’re tracking elections across 12 states. Virginia and Wisconsin have statewide contests, school board races test conservative messaging, and parties battle to control cities, counties, and even ...

Planned Parenthood stopped offering abortion services in Wisconsin after the Dobbs decision in 2022, fearing that a 19th-century law would soon kick in and ban abortions in the state. Last fall, when ...

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 ...

LaDerrick Campbell has an IQ in the 60s. His defense counsel described him as “the most profoundly mentally ill client” they had ever encountered. Daniel Blank’s confession was coerced; one of the ...

This article is produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Mother Jones. For the first time since the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, voters in Minneapolis and ...