In the early evening on Feb. 19, two Chicago police officers arrested a 40-year-old man in the Englewood neighborhood.

An old-fashioned, four-legged polling booth is on display in the lobby of the Salt Lake County clerk’s office. Its metal ...

Canvassers stop passersby in front of a local grocery store or town library and ask them if they’d be willing to sign a ...

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 ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta stunned the Los Angeles political and criminal justice communities in April 2024 with his decision to prosecute Diana Teran, an advisor to then-District Attorney ...

Florida Republicans spent weeks squabbling over rival immigration bills. Their conflict wasn’t over significant policy differences: They agreed on diverting hundreds of millions in state funds toward ...

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then ...

Daniel Jenkins has volunteered to boost voter turnout on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus since becoming a student there in 2022. Jenkins, now a junior studying political science, has spent ...

This article was published in collaboration between Bolts and New York Focus. Central New York’s Tompkins County, home to Ithaca, found itself in the federal government’s crosshairs last month when ...

As millions tuned in to watch the Super Bowl in New Orleans this month, outside the Superdome in the central French Quarter, thousands of law enforcement officers patrolled the streets. The heavy ...

After two Connecticut businesses were found to have played a large role in U.S. executions in the past five years, lawmakers are proposing a bill that would make it illegal for state companies to ...

Julia Rock is a reporter for New York Focus. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Intercept, the Lever, and the New York Times.