Just after we published The Canvass saying that voting by mail is hard for many American Indians and Alaska Natives, we received a new report from the Native American Voting Rights Coalition (NAVRC): “Obstacles at Every Turn: Barriers to Political Participation Faced by Native American Voters.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Lomax v. Ortiz that a dismissal without prejudice for failure to state a claim counts as a strike under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).

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COVID-19 created a large shift for everyone as students, teachers and parents rushed to move from in-person to virtual learning within a short time. How will this learning shift affect learning loss for students?

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When the coronavirus pandemic began and Americans were asked to stay at home, millions of people—especially those living with chronic illness—had to quickly figure out how to get extended refills of their needed medicines. Rushes such as these were just the tip of the of drug shortage iceberg as the new era of COVID-19 emerged.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how people seek health care, including how women receive prenatal and postpartum care and how they give birth.

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Staying connected has never been so important, and many states are looking more closely at how to ensure reliable, high-speed broadband service.

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June 2 was sort of a Second Super Tuesday, with eight states (Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and South Dakota) and the District of Columbia running either presidential or state primary elections.

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If you’d asked NCSL’s elections and redistricting team at the beginning of the year what the hottest issues of 2020 would be, we would have said two things: the 2020 elections and the run-up to next year’s redistricting.

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Last Friday night, close to midnight, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision rejected a request from a number of California churches to strike down the portion of California governor’s stay-at-home order limiting attendance at places of worship to 25% of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees.

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Contact tracing may be a new term to many people due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but to public health professionals, it’s old news and has been around for decades.

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