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A guide to understanding the debate over keeping voter rolls 'clean'The federal government's demands that states turn over their voter rolls and related information highlight longstanding conflicts ov...
Carter Walker for Votebeat Oct 03, 2025
Why a trans teen fled his Texas home to find safety: 'Daily danger zone'Fifteen-year-old Dylan is in Minnesota, in his aunt's basement, where he and his mom Sara now live, when he meets with a reporte...
Anya Kamenetz for The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Teen Vogue Oct 03, 2025
Women's suffrage, but for whom? These 10 Black suffragists fought for the vote before—and long after—the 19th Amendment Open an American history textbook from the last 50 years to the wome...
Eliza Siegel Oct 02, 2025
America’s safest citiesCity safety — or lack thereof — can lead to great disparity in quality of life and return on dollars invested by residents, businesses and government alike. Wi...
Jaclyn DeJohn, CFP for SmartAsset Oct 01, 2025
Republican governors sent National Guard to DC despite violence at homeWhen Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced he was sending his state’s National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., at Presid...
Chip Brownlee for The Trace Sep 23, 2025
Building toward disaster: Growth collides with rising seas in Charleston, SCOn a quiet street near the marsh in Charleston, South Carolina’s Rosemont neighborhood, Luvenia Brown watches the weat...
Ames Alexander for Floodlight Sep 22, 2025
US rolls toward a ‘terrible’ government shutdown, no exit ramp in sightDemocrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have entered a stalemate over whether to fund the government for seven week...
Jennifer Shutt for States Newsroom Sep 19, 2025
Trump administration declares timber emergency after decades of employment decline in the industryEarlier this year, the Trump administration issued an executive order to increase timber production by...
Sarah Melotte for The Daily Yonder Sep 18, 2025
Trump's fixation on urban crime ignores worsening rural violence, experts sayIn the nearly three weeks since President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the nation's capital, he has threaten...
Fairriona Magee for The Trace Sep 17, 2025
Young kids with and without disabilities can learn side by side. One state has instead kept them apart for yearsTerri Joyce of Cinnaminson, New Jersey, believed that her son belonged in a kindergarten...
Marina Villeneuve for The Hechinger Report Sep 12, 2025