Yale's Climate Connections reported that in the arid Southwest, residents are surviving drought by relying on each other.

David Schlinkert
August 29, 2018

"This is the first time in my life that I've been sober like this. I've tried to get sober before, but it never worked. Without Maggie's Place, I probably would have lost my baby, and I'd probably be running the streets."
– Former homeless and pregnant mother in Arizona

The Atlantic reported that the future caught up to Joe Arpaio, the “toughest sheriff in America,” who was crushed in Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Arizona, and although pardoned by Trump a year ago, consigned him to the kind of jail he dreaded most: irrelevance.

Arizona State University's State Press reported that in 2016, almost half of Arizona’s population did not vote in the presidential election and less than three percent of ASU’s student body voted last spring in the USG elections.

Because elections give people the power to control many aspects of their daily lives, ASU public policy experts said low voter participation is creating a crisis situation for democracy.

A report produced by Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for the Arizona Town Hall details ways that Arizona’s prison and sentencing system can reduce incarceration