California has just proposed a sweeping new rule to permanently ban intoxicating hemp products — and Texas may soon follow, ...

Tuesday marked a historic election for Charlottesville, Virginia, as the city used ranked choice voting (RCV) for the first ...

Former President Bill Clinton called California’s nonpartisan top two primary system, authored by the Independent Voter Project and approved by voters in 2010, a “much more sensible” election system ...

Registered unaffiliated voters in Nevada – the state’s largest registered voting bloc – came close to gaining real electoral ...

The last 5 to 10 years have seen a steady drumbeat of global instability. First, the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, triggered the largest land war in Europe since World War II. The ...

Showing an independent streak in keeping with Maine’s political tradition, Sen. Rick Bennett (R–Oxford) broke ranks with his ...

The more the system incentivized partisan division, the less progress was made on these bills. The 2013 bill, for example, was able to pass the Senate, but was never brought up for House consideration ...

As the New York City Charter Revision Commission considers a wide breadth of reforms to city policy, one reform in particular ...

The health care crisis behind bars affects two distinct but deeply connected groups: incarcerated individuals and correctional officers. While incarcerated people are constitutionally entitled to care ...

What began as peaceful immigration policy protests on June 6 has escalated into a national political crisis, with violent clashes, arrests, looted businesses, burning Waymo cars, a smashed government ...

As the Senate takes up the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), some lawmakers are considering a slate of ...