In their final weeks before they lose the ability to pass laws, Republican lawmakers gutted the powers of incoming Democratic ...

A historian of migrant detention responds to questions from Bolts readers on the vast network of local lockups that jail ...

Nationwide, unhoused people have some of the lowest turnout among all voters. Los Angeles County is trying to change this ...

Erin Rode is a freelance journalist based in Southern California, where she reports on the environment, climate change, ...

In the presidential election, the GOP fared better than in 2020 in every state. But in thousands of legislative races across the country, the results were more complicated. The GOP unquestionably had ...

Alaskans appear to have narrowly rejected Measure 2, a ballot initiative that would have repealed the state’s open primary and ranked-choice voting system. The system, first approved by voters in 2020 ...

Earlier this month, California voters turned back toward the tough-on-crime era with the overwhelming passage of Prop 36, a ballot measure that elevates certain drug and theft charges from ...

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Cynthia Mendoza’s first pregnancy, in the free world, was a time of enveloping love and anticipation. But in 2006, six months into her second pregnancy, Mendoza was arrested and jailed pre-trial in a ...

The forum in downtown Flint, Michigan, on the warm early afternoon of Oct. 3, was in many ways a typical election-season scene. A handful of politicians—in this case, candidates for seats on the ...