For too long, this law has allowed the government to evade privacy protections and spy on Americans. Reform is overdue.

Preliminary studies suggest that innovative programs could improve prison conditions and outcomes after release.

The order instructs the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots unless the voters are on a list of approved citizens ...

Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution. The first sentence of the 14th Amendment reads, “All persons born or ...

In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to assert presidential control over significant aspects of federal elections. The illegality at the heart of the order is that the ...

I was an FBI agent who infiltrated white supremacists. Too many local police don’t take the far right seriously — or they actively sympathize with them. For decades, the Federal Bureau of ...

With a strong bipartisan vote, lawmakers have agreed to a create a fairer process for drawing the state’s election maps. Virginia lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a proposal on Saturday to create a ...

Privacy laws in this country are badly outdated, creating gaps that data brokers and government agencies can exploit. For instance, the Electronic Communications ...

Ahead of the 2026 midterms, Trump administration allies have floated the possibility that federal immigration agents could interfere at polling sites this fall, a scenario that would violate federal ...

After the 2010 election, state lawmakers nationwide started introducing hundreds of harsh measures making it harder to vote. The new laws range from strict photo ID requirements to early voting ...

Voter purges are an often-flawed process of cleaning up voter rolls by deleting names from registration lists. The Brennan Center works to ensure that they are nondiscriminatory and do not ...

Over the years, small donor public financing has emerged as the most powerful antidote to the outsize influence of megadonors in our elections. By enabling and incentivizing candidates to rely on ...