In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...

San Francisco, California and several Bay Area civil-rights organizations — including the Asian Law Caucus — have all ... with his parents to China in 1890 so they could set him up with ...

Wong, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents, was barred from entering the U.S. — under the Chinese Exclusion Act — while returning from an overseas trip in 1890. In a 6-2 decision ...

Since 2022, MS Reentry has held an annual legislative caucus meeting to set priorities and discuss second ... The roots of the state’s punitive disenfranchisement law date back to a clause in its 1890 ...

CALIFORNIA HAS A RECORD NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN LATINO STATE LAWMAKERS THIS TERM, BUT THOSE LAWMAKERS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN CALIFORNIA’S LATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS. KCRA THREE CAPITOL CORRESPONDENT ...

A Brooklyn lawmaker is quitting the City Council’s Women’s Caucus to protest its “anti-Israel” agenda and “woke” ways. GOP Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, 40, slammed the 30-member caucus ...

Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) lauded the creation of the Congressional Jewish Caucus in a Thursday press release outlining an official forum for Jewish lawmakers.

The new bipartisan Yes In My Back Yard or YIMBY Caucus in Congress is a promising sign that the housing affordability crisis gripping American cities might finally get the national attention it ...

Speaker Mike Johnson already has to worry about a clutch of hard-line conservative ideologues inside the House Republican ranks as he tries to pass the heart of President Donald Trump’s ...

A group of 21 Jewish House Democrats launched a Jewish caucus on Thursday, with Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York and Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois as co-chairs. The move formalizes a group that has ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis City-County Councillor Jesse Brown was kicked out of the Democratic Caucus on Monday. On Monday, Brown shared the news to his X account saying, “Just got ...