French, the Republican nominee for a statewide position regulating Texas’ oil and gas industry, posted a photo of University of Texas students, while decrying “foreigners” displacing Americans.

SYNOPSIS: Something remarkable has happened over the past 18 months across the U.S. and especially across the South: a mounting backlash against the explosion of data centers, surveillance cameras, an...

This morning's hearing may be the most consequential moment yet in the months-long legal fight over Trump's attempt to restrict mail voting before the midterms.

A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.

Assma Ali, a Muslim and immigration attorney, is now municipal judge in Benoit, Mississippi, but is also facing misinformation and threats.

Instead of the state determining what will be taught in university classrooms, students must be free to hear and consider even officially disfavored ideas presented to them by professors, a federal ap...

Vonda McDaniel, a longtime leader of Tennessee’s organized labor movement who pushed to build working class power, died Tuesday at 60.

Chris Danielson writes about how redistricting efforts in Mississippi are based far more in race than they are in partisan politics.

James Bruggers, a longtime, groundbreaking Kentucky environmental and energy journalist, died Tuesday.

State sales tax on retail weed will be 6% to start and rise to 8% in 2029, while retail locations to be capped at 350 statewide

SYNOPSIS: It’s another fraught Pride Month in the South, where LGBTQ rights remain under attack from conservative lawmakers. This week we talk to Dolores Wilk of Central Arkansas Pride about their adv...

ANALYSIS: For SBC influencer William Wolfe, “racism” is denouncing racism and white supremacy.

Knox County Schools recently took Alex Haley's influential novel, "Roots," off library shelves under the Age-Appropriate Materials Act.

COLUMBIA — An expansion of a law originally passed to keep Confederate monuments in place marked the final hours of South Carolina’s 2026 legislative session. Still, legislators will return for a spec...

The Republican push for South Carolina to join the national redistricting battle by redrawing its U.S. House map fizzled Tuesday as an initial vote in the state Senate fell short.

The Mississippi Legislature won’t have to redraw the state Supreme Court district map after a court granted a motion to vacate a redistricting order.

In a dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that there was "evidence of discriminatory intent" in Alabama's actions.

One of the main methods of obtaining abortion medication for those living in states with bans is now blocked nationwide, after a federal appeals court decision issued Friday afternoon.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s existing congressional map Wednesday as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a ruling that may have implications for core tenets of the Voting Right...

Gov. Bill Lee has signed a declaration proclaiming June to be “Nuclear Family Month." The response to the resolution has been what you’d expect. People are rightly seeing this as a metaphorical middle...