Democracy

Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection in Missouri yesterday after Gov. Mike Parson (R), the Missouri Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court all refused to save his life. Prosecutors and the victim’s…

Young voters in rural areas continue to feel ignored in politics as the presidential election intensifies, according to research this spring from the Center for Information and Research on Civic…

The Supreme Court says that people held in jails who are legally innocent have a right to vote. In reality, that’s often impossible. On Election Day, approximately 448,000 legally innocent people will…

Whether on the presidential debate stage or in races for governor, state legislatures, or city councils, candidates for elected office are falling back on an old tactic: Making spurious claims…

After giving birth in 2011, Eboney Ellis says she didn’t get any time to bond with her newborn in prison. Ellis, who was incarcerated and in the custody of the…

Two incarcerated men have participated in a hunger strike for better conditions in Connecticut prisons for the past eight days. The incarcerated hunger strikers, Jacky Robinson Jr. and Cornel Myers…

In an election year, everyone has a role to play, including the nonprofits you support in your community. But you might wonder how these groups can participate in the democratic…

The year 2024 has featured a series of pivotal and hotly contested elections around the world, and the U.S. presidential election — the campaign for which has gone through a whipsaw…

In the era of Trump, there have been countless attempts to explain the conservative voting habits of small town America. Many rely upon taken-for-granted notions of rural backwardness, overrepresenting the…

Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment for years. In 1994, they voted for harsher criminal penalties and a three-strikes law. Twenty years later, in 2014, nearly 60%…

As Alaskans consider this fall whether to repeal their new ranked-choice voting election system, leaders of the state’s Native tribes have emerged as key defenders of the system. They’re working…

About a month before Arizona’s July primary, Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly and her older sister Elisa Cázares were driving around Three Points, a rural community between Tucson and where…