Record voter turnout and conspiracies Absentee voting surged in the 2020 election, conducted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. States scrambled to craft policies that allowed more voters to cast ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

“Does this explain everything about gun ownership?” Buttrick said. “No, of course not. What we think it helps us to think about is where does protective gun ownership come from, what is the history.

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As discussions about reparations for Black Americans gain some ground, the first state with a task force on the issue is hearing that it needs to think bigger. African ...

Reading Time: 10 minutes The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. As deadly Ebola raged in Africa and ...

Rethinking systems that maintain the gap Taxes. Higher education. Healthcare. Credit scores. Lending. So many of the systems that run through our lives have an impact on economic inequality, and too ...

For many who first learned about the so-called heartbeat bills in national headlines, the push seemed unprecedented. But it was the outcome of nearly 10 years of calculated effort, starting with a ...

Reading Time: 6 minutes A leading advocate for homeless rights in Congress says the federal government must do a better job helping schools identify and assist students who are experiencing housing ...

Thousands of Americans will lose their right to vote in this year’s midterm elections over mistakes like forgetting a signature or putting down the wrong date on paperwork for mail voting. Most states ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes While restoration of the federal Voting Rights Act languishes in a split Congress, an already deep divide in Americans’ access to voting has widened over the past year. In part ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes This article was published in partnership with Stateline. The first installment of a new national data release that will help journalists and researchers analyze polling place ...