Democracy

More than 40 million Americans, including both renters and homeowners, are struggling to afford housing costs. In a recent poll, most registered voters in five key battleground states reported that addressing housing…

Los Angeles is directing millions to tackle homelessness but not all of it appears to be well-spent or properly accounted for, according to auditors charged with looking at how the…

For decades, Faye Schuett, alongside her late wife Linda Seaver Burnett, has championed LGBTQ+ rights, blending LGBTQ+ activism with philanthropy to create lasting change. Her deep commitment to equality has…

The training in northwest Mississippi that Cassandra Welchlin led was focused on mobilizing Black women voters amidst voter suppression, but the longtime community organizer wanted to make space to sing.…

Michael Bell Sr. has believed for years that Kenosha police officers victimized his family — first by killing his son in 2004 and then, he alleges, by covering up what…

As it stands, NOAA, the nation’s main weather service, is one of the few resources communities can access when attempting to understand how a major storm or wildfire may impact…

In a lot of ways, an attack on Nabala Cafe always felt inevitable — and we didn’t even have a Palestinian flag hanging in the window when we first opened in July.…

Police and soldiers from Uganda’s U.S.-trained army cracked down on Ugandan oil pipeline protests on Monday. The demonstrators advocated against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, continuing the globally condemned…

Across the country, bipartisan canvassing for democracy fueled by concern for our shared future has been prevalent. Patricia Dean of Tucson, Arizona, has been canvassing for Vice President Kamala Harris…

The role of the death penalty as a toll of the racist system of criminal punishment has been long documented. In the case of Alameda County, California, the inside story…

Some voters are already casting early ballots in the first presidential election since the global pandemic ended and former President Donald Trump refused to accept his defeat. This year’s presidential…

One night in March of 2023, Amari Marsh went to the bathroom and suffered a miscarriage. “I screamed because I was scared, because I didn’t know what was going on,”…