In March 2025, two members of the DOGE team communicated with a political advocacy group that was seeking to “find evidence ...

With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...

As a new decade begins, it’s hard to believe just how different our campaign finance system looks now compared with the beginning of the last decade. One key difference: ten years ago, there was no ...

Starting after the 2010 election, legislators in nearly half the states passed a wave of laws making it harder to vote. These new restrictions ranged from cuts to early voting to burdens on voter ...

In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, striking down the Voting Rights Act’s formula for determining which states and localities should be required to get ...

Most immigrants facing deportation are entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge, but their legal rights differ from those in criminal cases. Immigration is at the center of U.S. politics.

A new study shows a growing racial voter turnout gap. It’s compelling evidence that voter suppression laws are devastatingly effective. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly ...

The Trump administration has said that it is reviewing all 55 million people with valid visas to visit, live in, or work in the United States for potential deportation violations, including through ...

This article first appeared at Just Security. On March 8, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and a prominent leader of ...

The industry’s voluntary commitments are no substitute for enforceable regulations and external oversight. One year ago this week, 27 artificial intelligence companies and social media platforms ...

A newspaper reports on challenges of Black voters in Wake County, North Carolina. The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), July 29, 1872 (Library of Congress). The first laws allowing private ...

Compared to other democracies, the United States is an outlier in granting life tenure to justices, producing diminishing returns and mounting costs. The average term length of U.S. Supreme Court ...