EditorialAn Ohio voter, Lysha Ingle, signs a petition to place an amendment protecting abortion rights in the state constitution on the ballot, in Cincinnati, April, 21, 2023. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)
EditorialAlonzo Manuel, a wound care technician, caring for Linda Rogers, whose leg was amputated at Greenwood Leflore Hospital in Greenwood, Miss. on Feb. 16, 2023. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialAlonzo Manuel, a wound care technician, caring for Linda Rogers, whose leg was amputated at Greenwood Leflore Hospital in Greenwood, Miss. on Feb. 16, 2023. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialVeronica Klinefelt, left, a Democratic candidate for the Michigan State Senate, speaks with Jennifer Trupp, a teacher, in Eastpointe, Mich. on Oct. 3, 2022. (Emily Elconin/The New York Times)
EditorialDaniel Squadron, left, and Adam Pritzker, founders of the States Project, a Democratic-aligned group focused on state legislatures, in New York on Sept. 22, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialAbortion rights activists protest outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
EditorialDemocrats from the Georgia House protest a restrictive voting law outside the State Capitol in Atlanta on March 25, 2021. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers distributed brochures on the U.S. Census at a Vietnamese New Year Festival in Austin, Texas on Jan. 19, 2020. (Go Nakamura/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Joe Biden speaks about voting rights, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Angus King (I-Maine) says he fears the empowerment of state legislatures to decide election results more than the troubling curtailments of the franchise. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialLaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, speaks at a protest directed towards Delta Air Lines Inc. at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
EditorialPoll workers organize mail-in ballots Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Lansing, Mich., at the South Washington Election Unit. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
EditorialState Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat, speaks on the Senate floor at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Jan. 22, 2020. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)
EditorialThe bondage of cities. A reprint of chapter III, (with original paging) from the work entitled The city for the people, on the subject of home rule for cities, showing the bondage of cities to state legislatures, with a discussion of methods for obtain...