Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

Today, the SAVE Act comes before the Senate. This is the bill that could block more than 21 million Americans from voting, according to our research. The debate could last two weeks, and now is the ...

The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could ...

The bill attacking the freedom to vote should be Congress’s “number one priority.” “It will guarantee the midterms,” he told them. “If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion.” As many readers of ...

Marina Pino testified before the State of Connecticut General Assembly’s Government Administration and Elections Committee on March 18, 2026 in support of the policy of moving municipal elections to ...

At the halfway point in the decade, newly released census data points to continued shifts in representation after the 2030 census, but some big unknowns lurk. New state-level population estimates ...

X (formerly Twitter) threads on Reporting That HPSCI Chair Mike Turner Showed Slides of People Protesting US Aid to Israel in a Closed Door Briefing as Justification Against Section 702 Reform (Read ...

Federal court decisions against some Trump administration policies have led to calls from the president’s supporters to impeach judges, and in March 2025 President Trump himself said that a federal ...

Mike German is a former fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in ...

The National Guard plays a crucial role in the United States, both in its capacity as a reserve component of the armed forces and as a versatile asset that state governors can call on in times of ...

In late March, the Supreme Court will hear a case where Republican voters argue that Maryland’s Sixth Congressional District is an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Maryland defends the map, ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s current nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, has a long career in the public record. Here, the Brennan Center highlights two troubling aspects of Bondi’s recent ...