Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Tuesday that she will pursue electoral reform included in her administration's ...

A lawyer who once represented drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has won a judgeship in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua in Mexico’s historic judicial elections this month.

Tuesday is the deadline to cast ballots in the special election to fill the District 1 seat on the San Diego County Board of ...

Judicial elections, as they are conceived, are a half-hearted democracy: unknown candidates, empty campaigns and a disoriented citizenry. For voting to be meaningful – and not just a political ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

South San Diego County voters will choose between Paloma Aguirre and John McCann to fill the vacant District 1 seat on the Board of Supervisors.

Ordinary citizens often face a justice system that feels distant or rigged against them. But instead of addressing these ...

The highlights this week: Mexico holds judicial elections, Haiti’s interim government hires a U.S. mercenary service, and an Ecuadorian grandma gains a global online following.

Donald Trump may have announced a ceasefire in the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, but what comes next depends on what ...

A controversial proposal to sell off large portions of America’s public lands has been defeated following widespread public ...

Judicial elections will not solve all the country’s ills, but neither are they a scenario we can ignore without consequences.

It’s decision time in South County. South County voters go to the polls today to pick their new representative on the County ...