Viola Liuzzo was the only white woman killed in the US civil rights movement. Behind her death, the KKK and a shadowy FBI informant.

Disenfranchisement of ex-felons can have a measurable impact on election results.

Update: On Thursday morning, Gov. Mike Pence signed into law a bill that allows Indiana businesses to turn away gay and lesbian customers in the name of "religious freedom."

Oregon showed democracy is possible by making voting easy. If they can do it why not the USA?

Ideologues in state capitols are wasting little time when it comes to enacting an extreme agenda, but local activists are pushing back.

The crisis of inequality represents a tragic and painful failure of the old system and the old politics, but it's also an opportunity to create something new.

The host of Last Week Tonight explains why the citizens of the American territories like Puerto Rico and American Samoa aren't allowed to vote.

Historian Andrew Bacevich writes that academics "presuming to instruct the mere mortals who actually run for office are a blight on the republic."

The Obama administration, Shell and the fate of the Arctic Ocean.

After a surge in voting participation among African-Americans and other groups in 2008, many states enacted new voting restrictions.