As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are ...

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when ...

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale. It was an idyllic Saturday afternoon on Feb. 5, 2022, as Kambran Young drove down Appalachee ...

In December 2020, on the eve of taking the reins as the district attorney of Los Angeles County, George Gascón was up late trying to make a decision. He’d been elected weeks earlier on promises to ...

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal ...

Some of Joseph Jones’ earliest memories are of visiting his father in prison. Then abandonment, when his parents left him in North Carolina and moved to New Jersey after Jones’ father was released.

Lorelei Cloud was born in 1967, three years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. Even once she turned 18, and for many years thereafter, she ...

Chronicling the Nation’s Fragmented Institutions There are thousands of public officials, elected on vastly varying schedules, with decisive roles in policy-making. Our cheat sheets and databases ...