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November 8, 2024
Voters Dismiss Two of California’s Leading Progressive Prosecutors
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October 23, 2024
Downballot Stakes: Your Questions Answered
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October 11, 2024
What’s on Your Local Ballots: Your Questions Answered
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October 9, 2024
To Tackle Housing Crisis, These Organizers Want to First Change How City Hall Works
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June 6, 2024
A Michigan City Ended Low-Level Traffic Stops. Now the County Could Follow.
Pascal Sabino
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April 23, 2024
Arizona Will Elect County Prosecutors in Shadow of Abortion Ban
Daniel Nichanian
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October 26, 2023
Pennsylvanians Are About to Decide Who Will Oversee the 2024 Elections
Daniel Nichanian
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May 15, 2023
How Will Philadelphia’s Next Mayor Tackle the Overdose Crisis?
Clare Boyle
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March 27, 2023
How the Tennessee GOP is Trying to Mute Music City
Henry Hicks
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February 23, 2023
Chicago Election Puts Police Oversight in Voters’ Hands
Max Blaisdell
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November 22, 2022
To Boost Turnout, Some Cities Just Synced Up Their Local Elections With National Cycles
Alex Burness
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June 11, 2021
Syracuse School Board Elections Heat Up Over Police Debate
Rachel M. Cohen
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June 10, 2021
Norfolk Elects Prosecutor Who Says Crime Is a “Symptom of Structural Racism”
Daniel Nichanian
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May 18, 2021
Your Guide to Criminal Justice in Pennsylvania’s Elections Today
Daniel Nichanian
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May 18, 2021
Pittsburgh Voters May Ban Solitary Confinement in Jail Today
Ahmari Anthony
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May 6, 2021
Philly’s Judge Elections This Month Have the Power To Change the City
Maura Ewing
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April 26, 2021
San Antonio Election Will Test Police Union Power This Saturday
James Russell
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April 19, 2021
This Public Defender Has Fought the Manhattan D.A.’s Office. Now She Wants To Lead It.
Daniel Nichanian
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March 30, 2021
This Election Could Transform Policing in Omaha
Anoa Changa
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March 11, 2021
‘Life Sentences Are Death Sentences.’ How This D.A. Candidate Wants to Decarcerate Manhattan
Daniel Nichanian
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March 8, 2021
Philadelphia D.A. Race Tests Larry Krasner’s Sweeping Probation Reforms
Maura Ewing
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February 4, 2021
BLM Activist Shakes Up Sheriff Race in County Known for Deadly Jails
Raina Lipsitz
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January 11, 2021
New D.A. Commits to Fixing Georgia’s ‘Backdoor to Incarceration’
Katie Jane Fernelius
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December 15, 2020
How Ohio’s Racial Justice Movement Won Big at the Ballot Box
Anoa Changa
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December 10, 2020
How Immigrant Communities Beat Back ICE and Helped Flip Georgia
Sonam Vashi
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