You can’t find many clichés hoarier than Tip O’Neill’s rule that “all politics is local.” A truism is supposed to be true, though. Does this one still hold?

As election day nears, school board candidates across the country are scrambling to wrap up their campaigns. They’re running ...

Recent controversy in St. Louis County raised questions about how widespread NDAs are, why they’re used, and how open records laws apply.

A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

Pineda: Low turnout in these key contests has made it easy for political actors to use these seats in ways that often perpetuate inequities.