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The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

The Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, made this explainer video about its work in 2015, a few years after it launched. David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation ...

Sixteen-year-old Horlandina Lopez-Perez left her aunt’s home in the middle of the night on Oct. 1, 2022, with her four-month-old son and a few baby clothes. Alexander Perez-Méndez, 17, thanked his ...

The anti-DEI laws are among several pieces of recent legislation restricting Florida doctors’ ability to care for their patients. Last April, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law banning abortion ...

Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the late 1980s when her parents ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes Professor Manuel Teodoro did not set out to write a book about civic engagement and democracy. He was just curious about some roadside water kiosks. In “The Profits of Distrust ...

And if the IRS determines that you don’t have enough money to pay both basic living expenses and taxes, it can agree not to take any of your income or assets temporarily, or for the indefinite future.

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes While restoration of the federal Voting Rights Act languishes in a split Congress, an already deep divide in Americans’ access to voting has widened over the past year. In part ...

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This demographic mismatch comes alongside an increasingly successful effort to push high courts to the right, the subject of a recent Public Integrity investigation. Nationally, state supreme courts ...