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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue. American public institutions urgently need repair and renewal. The 2024 election was the first time since the 1800s that the incumbent party lost ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to undermine future elections is in full swing. One part of that campaign is its bid to sweep up voter rolls across the nation, which began last spring and has now ...

This year, we saw extraordinary threats to American democracy: an executive power grab, threats to the freedom to vote, and more. Yet we also saw a growing response, from court rulings to citizen ...

The Supreme Court is considering whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional. The Supreme Court will decide this term if the Voting Rights Act still allows voters of color ...

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics. The power of the prosecutor is tremendous, ...

The Trump administration’s reported authorization of 600 military lawyers to act as temporary immigration judges would deprive immigrants of a fair hearing and further erode the line between the ...

Analyzing the president’s use of military, police, and security services in the nation’s capital. At the same time, the president signaled that D.C. may be a testing ground for this strategy, to be ...

In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials ...