The Trump administration’s effort to scoop up voter registration lists underscores how voter lists are a major battleground ...

Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed U.S. House maps that could give the GOP ...

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

One by one, delegates at the United Nations expressed support for a new panel of scientists who would advise countries on how to address chemicals and toxic waste. But the U.S. delegate took the ...

President Donald Trump asked Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to call the state legislature in for a special session where they could ...

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

It might sound radical, because only two states — Maine and Vermont — allow people with felony convictions to vote from ...

Seventeen years ago, my family and I voted for Barack Obama, America’s first Black president. Back then, I had a say and a ...

In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later an atomic bomb hit ...

Our state has erected what may be the most restrictive ballot access regime in America, creating a protective fortress around ...