Each election brings a mix of emotions for Sheba Williams. For nine years, Williams lost the right to vote due to a Jim Crow-era state law that disenfranchised Virginians with a felony conviction. Williams wasn’t the only one: Her parents also faced felony convictions when she was a child.
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In July 2025, Republicans in Congress passed, and President Donald Trump signed, this administration’s signature piece of legislation: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). In addition to directing
The Supreme Court on Monday denied review in over 200 cases, including a dispute that arose in Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd in police custody in 2020 and clashes involving actor Randy
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Over the past few decades, several features of the administrative state have been subject to heated constitutional challenge. One of them is agency adjudication: the practice of resolving disputes “in
Voters preserved abortion rights while making it harder for lawmakers to overturn citizen-approved measures. Anti-abortion Republicans are now looking for other ways to restrict access. Missouri Repub
Lauren Weingarten says that the time period after she was raped was a blur; she felt like she was in a new body as her mind processed what had been done to her. She doesn’t remember when the shooting
Tuesday night was record-breaking. Next year, record numbers of women will serve in the House (at least 136) and as governors across the U.S. (at least 17). Both House and Senate majorities have flipp
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Crystalyne Curley is set to become the first woman president of the Navajo Nation, the largest reservation by land mass in the country. Curley, who also held the distinction of being the first woman t
