Politics

A new Housing and Urban Development rule would roll back Obama-era protections for transgender people.

With two weeks left in the legislative session, Gov. Ned Lamont has yet to express support for the bill, which is the first of its kind in the country.

Two lawsuits in Louisiana and South Dakota are the first signs of resistance to efforts by the fossil fuel industry to criminalize pipeline protests.

In a congressional hearing, a witness from the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute said that the Census Bureau should ask about criminal records.

Former aides to Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., painted a portrait of a man who pits staffers against each other, screams easily, and throws pens with abandon.

It’s a textbook case of how broken Washington has become.

Ocasio-Cortez announced support for Cabán after the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed the public defender earlier this month.

The criminal justice reform movement’s focus on “nonviolent” offenders has hurt people like Michael Thompson: “Where’s the violence coming in at?”

Until recently, requests to interview Lula during his imprisonment were systematically denied.

Amash is the first Republican in Congress to call for impeachment. More Democrats, such as Nancy Pelosi, should be willing to say the same.