From manufacturing hand sanitizer to processing chicken, incarcerated workers face extreme risk for virtually no pay.

How today’s religious right functions as a shadow political party

They think she’ll be easier to beat in the general election—and some Democrats agree. New research suggests otherwise.

Decades of anti-unionism are coming to a head in the state.

How the North Carolina GOP's anti-democratic chicanery became the national party's playbook for electoral theft

The board of governors has chosen a baffling route out of a controversy over Civil War memorials.

Republican politicians don't think climate change is real. Democrats don't have that excuse.

Inmates are among the most vulnerable populations on our warming planet—and among the most ignored.

It’s not the narrow loss in a special election that should worry the national party, it’s what Republicans did the next morning.

A typical North Carolina moderate might beat a Trump ally in Tuesday’s special election, but state Democrats need to think longer term.

Climate change is accelerating the spread of lethal algal blooms in American waterways—with devastating results for humans and animals alike.

Georgia's "fetal heartbeat" bill never would have passed if the state legislature truly reflected the voters' political preferences.

Democrats have slowly started to win back seats at the state level. But ALEC is doing all it can to make sure it doesn’t matter.

Republicans in multiple states are using lame-duck sessions to disempower the Democrats who won in last month's blue wave.

Trump has seized the federal bench, but there's hope for Democrats in the lower judiciary.

Years of Republican rule in North Carolina left the state vulnerable to the predictable impacts of a storm like Florence.