With fewer state lawmakers representing rural districts, issues important to rural areas may go unheard.

The department’s new website has the feeling of a first-person video game and aims to replace the media as the public’s go-to source for crime information.

Governing interviewed Time correspondent Michael Grunwald, who argues in his new book that the stimulus has had more influence on domestic policy than any other piece of legislation in decades.

A 115-year-old editorial on the existence of Santa Claus sheds light on the future of civics in America.

In the next four years, state and local governments are going to be at the very front of domestic policy -- especially on issues like health care where the feds have gotten most of the headlines.