Two high-profile deaths of men in custody and an unauthorized strike by corrections officers in the last year exhibited the systemic crisis within New York State’s prisons. The legislature responded ...

Tech companies have taken important steps recently to help protect elections from AI, but more needs to be done to safeguard democracy. In Munich, companies including OpenAI, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, ...

Findings from a new national survey on the prevalence of government-issued identification show that 9.1 percent of American citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, lack ready access to a ...

Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states ...

Public campaign financing is a reform on the march. Recognizing it as the most powerful response to the last decade’s explosion of big money in politics, state and local governments have enacted new ...

When North Carolina redrew its legislative and congressional districts 10 years ago, the Voting Rights Act required that it — along with other states with a history of racial discrimination — submit ...

In late September, President Trump signed an executive order purporting to designate “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.” A few days later, he issued National Security Presidential ...

The Supreme Court is set to decide a case that could overturn laws in 30 states that provide grace periods, which allow counting mail ballots received after Election Day but sent on time. Meanwhile, ...

President Trump’s budget bill will codify much of his immigration agenda, drastically changing the landscape of enforcement and detention. Significantly, the bill funds a giant immigration detention ...

Members of Congress are allowed to trade stocks, and almost all of them own shares in public companies. Placing stricter rules on congressional stock trading is a key ethics reform that’s critical to ...

Artificial intelligence didn’t disrupt the 2024 election, but the effects are likely to be greater in the future. The run-up to the 2024 election was marked by predictions that artificial intelligence ...

State elections the year after a presidential contest are often seen as bellwethers for which party has momentum. This year’s elections were likely trendsetters in another respect: Several races broke ...