With the mid-term elections approaching, questions have arisen over whether the Trump administration might attempt to station ...

From unprecedented spending to public outrage over corruption, here’s how big money is shaping the 2026 election.

Midterm elections often are waged as a rebuke to the party in control of the White House. Political scientists call this a thermostatic election. Voters adjust the temperature by turning the dial away ...

A majority of voters in the Deep South disagree with their states’ extreme restrictions, highlighting the disconnect between the public and the legislators who represent them.

Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and ...

The California AI Transparency Act requires AI-generated images to include digital labels, but most chatbots aren’t looking ...

These gaps illuminate the challenge of regulating a growing field of AI activity I call “privileged deployment” — testing, research and other uses of AI models that are available only to their ...

The results of gubernatorial races in dozens of states could lead to benefits for incarcerated people and the broader public.

A presidential order has activated the post-9/11 machinery of federal-state-local law enforcement cooperation to target the administration’s political opponents.

For most of 2026, the Court has clearly and repeatedly signaled its hostility to democracy, on both its merits docket and its shadow docket. Those rulings, especially the 6–3 stake through the heart ...

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was enacted to keep the U.S. military out of civilian law enforcement except where authorized by Congress. While it is meant to prevent federal troops from being used ...

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 ...