The administration’s attempts to collect sensitive voter information on a massive scale pose risks to voters and election ...

On Saturday, Trump stated in a Truth Social post, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The post ...

In the wake of serious abuses, the 2024 law improves transparency and accountability in the nation’s largest prison system.

Two appeals courts in the past few days have issued resounding rulings that many of President Trump’s high-profile moves on ...

Meddling in the census fits into the Trump administration’s broader efforts to manipulate data and institutions to skew ...

A majority of Americans and both parties say there should be more restrictions on members of Congress trading stocks.

The Trump administration’s recently passed budget bill massively increases money for immigration enforcement, based in part on the myth that immigrants are responsible for increases in violent crime.

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. President Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago to “straighten that one out.” New ...

Bush-era records released under the Freedom of Information Act raise concerns about the powers presidents might claim during crises, from suspending habeas corpus to implementing an internet kill ...

Challenges to democracy intensified over the summer. The National Guard deployed in California. The Supreme Court ruled on presidential power using the shadow docket. In Texas, an egregious ...

In fact, as the Brennan Center recently explained in The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election, ...

Heather Schoenfeld, Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 211–16 (arguing that the constituencies that helped grow and ...