Disappointed in Mayor Sylvester Turner, progressives wonder if they’ll be stuck with John Whitmire, a pro-labor conservative Democrat.

Attention freedom-lovers: The targeting of a bail fund sets a very dangerous precedent.

A handful of Democratic senators voted with Republicans to reject Washington, D.C.’s police reforms, spitting in the face of its right to self-government.

There’s a tendency to brush off what Fox does as to be expected. But the network embodies a disease that needs to be excised from society.

“He raped me, whether I screamed or not.”

A new report finds that New York City shootings and murders are down, despite Republicans’ best attempts to portray it as a crime haven.

Every detail in the story of the shooting of a Black teenager is worse than the last.

The Florida governor’s war on Disney continues.

The Manhattan district attorney laid out 34 charges of falsifying documents against the former president, but if the past is any guide, there are pitfalls ahead.

Trump’s imminent arraignment has spawned a wide and reckless array of legal hot takes.

The departure of a controversial Republican sheriff gave hope to reformers in Western New York. But very little has changed.

Jimmie Duncan is on death row in Louisiana based on fraudulent science—but that might not matter if the state’s governorship flips this fall.

Thirty-one Democrats (and two independents who caucus with the Democrats) joined Republicans in subverting the will of the District’s voters.

The Washington, D.C., delegate to Congress has had enough.

The Democratic Party has done it again.

Does Washington, D.C. deserve rights or not?

Technology has made it easier than ever to menace other people. Can police and prosecutors keep pace while preserving our First Amendment rights?

The Supreme Court might end an infuriatingly unjust practice in criminal sentencing.

A Republican House and Democratic Senate could complicate negotiations, but some still hope for a revival of talks two years after the last failed effort.

Preston Hemphill is the sixth officer implicated in Nichols’s death. The five others, all Black men, were charged with second-degree murder.