In 2020, after Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon won office with nearly 54 percent of the vote, advocates for so-called reforms in the criminal justice system could exhale. When he ...

Former mayoral candidate and 4th Ward Ald. Sophia King endorsed former CPS CEO Paul Vallas for mayor on Tuesday, a public show of support that did not go over well with some of King's colleagues. In ...

Over the past few decades, conservative activists have patiently set their sights on organizing the first constitutional convention since 1787, invoking a never-used provision of the Constitution that ...

Progressive DC Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed new legislation that would roll back much of the progressive police reforms passed by the city council following the death of George Floyd in March 2020.

Demonstrators in Oakland protest the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in 2020. (Philip Pacheco / AFP/Getty Images) Criminal justice reform advocates spent the summer warning that efforts ...