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 ...

A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...

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, ...

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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 ...

The top 1% of earners in the state would receive an average tax cut of about $10,000 per year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and West Virginia Center on ...

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 ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Listen to the Toxic Labor investigation. Read the transcript of the audio. Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes When the U.S. Supreme Court decided an important voting rights case earlier this year, its ruling made it more difficult for voters to challenge restrictive state voting laws.

Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents in the country at nearly 39%. White Republicans have long had total control over state government due to an array of voter suppression ...

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 ...

In this 2015 photo, Rafael Surmay (left), Preston Pahia and Donna Johnson (right) distribute drinking water to neighbors in East Porterville, California, an unincorporated community in Tulare County.