We’re now in the third week of a reckless government shutdown, and the only thing either side can see eye to eye on is that it’s the other guy’s fault.

Black lawmakers and voting rights advocates are expressing concern about a potential decline in minority political ...

We are on the verge of becoming a country where the right to vote exists only on paper. America must be a democracy where ...

The US Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit ...

Closing Facebook comments comes with a loss: the shared community that comes with people who exercise the decorum enabling conversation that enhances, rather than distracts from, our stories. It’s ...

Sixteen candidates—including five Republicans, seven Democrats, three Independent candidates and one Green Party candidate—are running for U.S. Representative District 18 in the upcoming Nov. 4 ...

Let me be blunt: That’s just plain wrong. Those few members of Congress who did hold town meetings deserve our thanks as ...

He was jailed, tortured and denied the presidency five times, yet few shaped Kenya’s democracy or embodied its struggle more ...

I am not one of those who believe that Donald Trump has already turned America into a dictatorship. Yet the crossing-over ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will take the extraordinary step of rehearing Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could ...

Town halls, so strenuously avoided during the most recent congressional recess, are a vital forum for citizens looking to ...

Protests are planned for this upcoming weekend against the Trump Administration, here in Mid-Michigan and throughout the ...