For decades, voters and organizations have successfully brought lawsuits against racially discriminatory voting rules under ...

Sixty years ago this month, the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act, a historic breakthrough in a chamber long dominated by ...

The law disproportionately affected people of color and made them less likely to vote in future elections.

The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ...

Federal law limits the use of troops on American soil, but loopholes invite abuse. Congress and the states must act.

Rikers Island is a century-old jail complex on an island sandwiched between the Bronx and Queens in New York City. It’s home to 10 city jails, where you will find violence, chaos, and even death. This ...

Babak Pasdar, President and CEO of Bat Blue Networks, is an information technology security expert. In 2008 Pasdar reported his discovery of an unrestricted portal into a major telecommunications ...

Lawmakers must seize new opportunities to ensure political equality and fair access to the ballot box for Native American communities. Voting rights advocates have had much to celebrate in recent ...

Today the Department of Justice released new rules against discriminatory profiling by federal law enforcement. The rules update the department’s 2014 “Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies ...

Then there are the transactions that all seem to end up with the first family being paid — starting with the $28 million paid ...

Read our 2018 Democracy report here. In recent elections, we have seen images of Americans waiting for hours to cast a ballot. In the 2012, over 5 million voters waited more than an hour, and another ...

Both the private sector and government must take steps to help stem the tide of false election narratives. This piece was originally published in Just Security. In early December 2020, Ruby Freeman ...