A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and ...

This story is part of “Denying Innocence,” a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization examining issues of equity and justice in the court ...

This story was produced in a collaboration between Bolts and The Marshall Project – Jackson, a nonprofit news team covering ...

When the supreme court in Wyoming struck down an abortion ban in January, it cited a state constitutional amendment adopted in 2012 that affirmed a right for people to make their own health care ...

LaDerrick Campbell has an IQ in the 60s. His defense counsel described him as “the most profoundly mentally ill client” they had ever encountered. Daniel Blank’s confession was coerced; one of the ...

The water system that provides for the entire Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota has been contaminated with dangerous levels of manganese that have made the water undrinkable since May. For Lonna ...

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last decade. They’re now set to gain new allies with the incoming Trump ...

Morris mostly lived in solitary confinement from the time he went to prison in 1978, the year “Grease” was released, until he got out in 2017—alone 23 hours a day inside a cell the size of a parking ...

The nation’s voting rights landscape is in upheaval since the U.S. Supreme Court last week dramatically weakened the Voting Rights Act in its Louisiana v. Callais decision. Several GOP-run states ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

Two major elections are taking place this week, within days of one another. The United Kingdom votes on Thursday to elect its members of parliament for the first time since 2019. France then heads to ...