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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Fight for the City of Baltimore
A year after Freddie Gray’s fatal encounter with police sparked protest, which vision for the future will win out?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Voting-Rights Victory in Virginia
Governor Terry McAuliffe will sign orders allowing more than 200,000 people with felony convictions to cast a ballot.
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Orlin Wagner / AP Kansas' Never-Ending Budget Mess
The state is short of money yet again, thanks in part to a tax cut its governor won’t touch.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Fight for Cage-Free Eggs
A Massachusetts ballot initiative calling for expanded living space for chickens could affect consumers and producers across the country.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The State of New Columbia?
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to put statehood on the ballot in 2016, a move likely to spark backlash from Republicans in Congress.
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Matt York / AP The Fallout From Arizona's Primary
After long lines and waits, the Democratic Party and both the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns plan to sue the state.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP What Does Chuck Grassley Fear?
Democrats are trying to pressure the Iowa senator to confirm Obama’s choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, but that strategy shows little sign of success so far.
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Gerry Broome / AP North Carolina's Nearly Meaningless Executive Order on Discrimination
Republican Governor Pat McCrory says he intends to clarify the LGBT-related law. Will it be enough to stop the backlash?
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David Goldman / AP Georgia's Republican Governor Rejects a Religious-Freedom Bill
Nathan Deal sides with corporations and gay-rights advocates who objected to the legislation backed by conservative evangelicals.
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Gerry Broome / AP North Carolina Overturns LGBT-Discrimination Bans
After Charlotte passed a city ordinance barring discrimination and creating transgender accommodation for bathroom use, Republicans in the state legislature swung into action.
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Carlos Osorio / AP Mayors Rise to the Defense of Free Trade
As presidential candidates from both parties attack TPP, it’s municipal leaders who are offering the most cogent vision of global engagement.
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John Locher / AP How Donald Trump Could End the Republican Lock on the Mormon Vote
The GOP front-runner's rhetoric may cost him support in Tuesday’s Utah caucuses, and spell trouble for the party in November.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Trump Disrupts Cuban-American Politics
The Republican front-runner’s supporters in Florida are looking for change, but his appeal also reveals a shift in identity.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Hard Power of 'Soft' Voter-ID Laws
States are passing special measures to head off attacks on the constitutionality of strict voter-identification requirements. But such measures are often just as disenfranchising as the laws they shield.
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Steve Cannon / AP The Left Wing's Trump
He’s an obnoxious millionaire New Yorker, a populist with a sketchy business, and party leaders hate him. Also: Alan Grayson is a Democrat.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters A Voter-ID Battle in Texas
As the 2016 elections near, the entire U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider the state’s voter-ID law.
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Carlos Osorio / AP Why Michigan Voters Are Hungry for Change
The state’s vibrant, blue-collar era is over—and what’s left is a core of hard-bitten residents who are disconnected from the political system.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Do Partisan Senators Make Better Presidential Candidates?
A new ranking of senators’ bipartisan work dovetails with popular notions of their candidacies and personalities.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The House and Senate Hopefuls Betting on Bernie
How Sanders’s economic message has trickled down to congressional races across the country
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Liberal Millennial Revolution
It’s here, it’s coherent, and it’s doomed—unless young people change their approach to political reform.
