In March 2025, two members of the DOGE team communicated with a political advocacy group that was seeking to “find evidence ...

With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...

This was originally published by Democracy Journal. Gerrymandering is not a new problem in the United States. Even the founding generation was not immune to its temptations: Patrick Henry famously ...

Summary: Financial incentives throughout the criminal justice system encourage punitive enforcement and sustain mass incarceration. Realigning them will require action from municipalities to the ...

A newspaper reports on challenges of Black voters in Wake County, North Carolina. The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), July 29, 1872 (Library of Congress). The first laws allowing private ...

Election deniers are abusing voter roll procedures, using false claims of widespread fraud to contest people’s eligibility to be on the rolls or cast a ballot. Since 2020, mass voter challenges have ...

A federal judge in Texas made news in January when he allowed a suit filed by Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to proceed against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion, based ...

Analyzing the president’s use of military, police, and security services in the nation’s capital. At the same time, the president signaled that D.C. may be a testing ground for this strategy, to be ...

This article was first published at Just Security. Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to ...

Nearly all election jurisdictions across the country use voting machines to count ballots because they are more accurate, faster, and cheaper than counting all ballots by hand. Hand counts fail when ...

Our study shows that women and officeholders of color face the brunt of threats and harassment. State-level reforms must be passed to preserve diversity. This was originally published in Ms. Magazine.

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 ...