Yet at year’s end, there’s reason for hope. The laws of political gravity have not been repealed. Abuse has been met with ...

While the executive order has created uncertainty for the many states that have passed artificial intelligence policies to ...

Today, the Court is spotty in its application of this newfangled theory. Trump v. United States, which granted presidents ...

70.9 percent of white voters cast ballots compared with only 58.4 percent of nonwhite voters — a disparity that will worsen with new restrictive voting laws. In the 2020 election, voter turnout surged ...

A new congressional map takes the Tar Heel State from having one of the fairest maps in the country to its most biased — and voters of color are among the big victims. When states redrew congressional ...

On March 25, 2025, the president issued an executive order titled Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections. The executive order, among other things, directs the Election ...

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...

Gowri Ramachandran is the director of elections and security in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program. Her work focuses on election security, election administration, and combating ...

Kevin Morris is a senior research fellow and voting policy scholar at the Brennan Center, where he focuses on voting rights, election administration, and the effects of the criminal justice system on ...

A handful of wealthy donors dominate electoral giving and spending in the United States. We need limits on campaign finance, transparency, and effective enforcement of these rules — along with public ...

The United States is one of the few democracies that place the burden of registering to vote on individual citizens. Not coincidentally, the United States also has one of the lowest voter registration ...

Enacted in 1792, the Insurrection Act grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and use it against Americans under certain conditions. While there are rare ...