Record voter turnout and conspiracies Absentee voting surged in the 2020 election, conducted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. States scrambled to craft policies that allowed more voters to cast ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

The top 1% of earners in the state would receive an average tax cut of about $10,000 per year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and West Virginia Center on ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes As discussions about reparations for Black Americans gain some ground, the first state with a task force on the issue is hearing that it needs to think bigger. African ...

In this 2015 photo, Rafael Surmay (left), Preston Pahia and Donna Johnson (right) distribute drinking water to neighbors in East Porterville, California, an unincorporated community in Tulare County.

A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Blanchard is a squat man with a ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes For decades in Houston, where resident Bryan “Lucas” Parras grew up near the city’s shipping channel, neighborhoods have faced the cumulative impacts of toxic emissions. The ...

This demographic mismatch comes alongside an increasingly successful effort to push high courts to the right, the subject of a recent Public Integrity investigation. Nationally, state supreme courts ...

The federal eviction moratorium lifts on Saturday, and expanded unemployment benefits expire July 31. The Senate is expected to take up a new stimulus bill this week, but it’s not yet clear whether it ...

Among the 15 members of a new Equity Commission charged with dismantling discrimination at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one name stood out: Shirley Sherrod. Sherrod rose to national prominence ...

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...