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 ...

You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. Yesterday, The New York Times reported that President Trump personally ordered Director 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 ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s bombing and regime-change operation in Venezuela, administration officials and lawmakers supporting the action have defended its legality. Some have analogized ...

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 ...

Citizens United unleashed unlimited spending in our elections, and groups can now spend hundreds of millions without disclosing their sources of funding. We advocate for greater transparency in ...

What is the Federal Prison Oversight Act? Signed into law in 2024, the Federal Prison Oversight Act was designed to bring more transparency and accountability to the U.S. prison system, which is the ...

The Court has repeatedly halted lower court orders and allowed administration policies to go forward via its “shadow docket” without any explanation. The Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket for ...