Coppa is a smooth talker who, with designer eyeglasses and a little hair gel, always has a smile on his face as he makes the ...

A Senate bill would replace party primaries with a single open primary in which every candidate appears on one ballot and ...

To begin with, democracy is not something we earn, it is the truth of the world. In his book “ Two Cheers for Politics ,” ...

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Makana Eyre is a journalist based in Paris. He has written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Nation, and Foreign Policy. He is the ...

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Lawmakers want to raise awareness about the state's red flag law, which has been virtually unused in the last six years — despite a significant increase in gun deaths.

Lawyers for Maui wildfire victims are lining up for a potential $1 billion payday, pending a ruling by Circuit Court Judge ...

The Sutro Library holds a large manuscript collection that once belonged to a wealthy Brit whose hobby was Pacific ...

Lawyers for the defense and prosecution called the jail to warn that a prisoner was suicidal. Then the inmate hanged himself ...

The state entered into a contract to provide panic buttons to Hawaiʻi schools two years ago, but DOE campuses still don't ...