Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

March 7, 1965 – approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

To create our own backstop for voter protections, we can codify the Voting Rights Act in California law and tailor it to our ...

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central ...

Anthony Albanese’s quest to make universal childcare essential to his legacy as prime minister has run into shocking revelations about institutional abuses – yet Albanese’s goal still seems immune ...

The safety of fluoride supplements, and freedom of choice, was debated at an FDA meeting this week.

WEST OLIVE, Mich. — The Ottawa County Board of Commissioners voted 7-4 Tuesday night to eliminate the county's motto, "Where Freedom Rings." The decision followed a lengthy public comment ...

The ranked ballots became secondary to the first-choice battle between two deeply polarizing figures. Ranked-choice voting didn’t mitigate polarization. It only masked it.

Washington, D.C. council members vote to approve funding for ranked choice voting, a measure that would allow voters to rank candidates on the ballot.

And Camden County Clerk Pam Lampitt said she had no choice but to design it that way, since Cherry Hill was too large a town ...

DC Council approved their budget on the first of two votes needed, which kept Initiative 82 in place and added funding for ranked choice voting. (7News) ...