Lawmakers were heckled and booed this week at town halls from Florida to Iowa

Number of other states that are currently considering similar exact match voter registration systems: 5

As attention turns to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, state courts that handle a million times more cases face an unprecedented threat to their integrity from secretive special-interest spending

Date on which the Fight for $15 movement held about two-dozen protests nationwide at Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. fast-food restaurants owned by…

Amount of investment Medicaid expansion would bring to North Carolina: $2 billion to $4 billion

While the media spotlight has focused on protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, opposition to the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline has been growing

Tons of exposed coal ash at the Lee plant: more than 1 million

Over the Labor Day weekend, security guards for a petro pipeline company used attack dogs and pepper spray against Native Americans resisting construction of a $3.8 billion pipeline through North Dakota, a project they say is desecrating land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux

Decade in which the income gap began to widen dramatically in the U.S., a period that also saw the beginning of a sharp decline in unionization rates: 1970s

The last offshore lease auction, which was held in New Orleans in March, drew hundreds of raucous but nonviolent protesters