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

Research shows that in a city of 100,000, each new nonprofit community organization lead to a 1.2 percent drop in the homicide rate, a 1 percent reduction in the violent crime rate, and a 0.7 percent ...

Federal legal precedent permits such prosecutions in limited circumstances, but the bar remains high. State and local law enforcement in Minnesota have said they are investigating federal agents’ ...

During the 2021 redistricting cycle, self-interested politicians continuously gerrymandered voting districts despite attempts by the Ohio Supreme Court to help implement fair maps. The current ...

A Survey of Americans’ Possession of Documentary Proof of Citizenship and Photo Identification A recent national survey sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law reveals that ...

Police quotas don’t make communities safer — they prevent officers from focusing on larger public safety issues. As some local police leadership says, “get your numbers up,” and you’ll be rewarded ...

Congress surrendered its most powerful check over the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month when it added $70 billion for immigration enforcement to the agency’s already massive budget.

It turns out that all the government really needs is cash and a data broker. Government agencies — as several publications have reported — have discovered ways around what seemed to be robust ...

The National Guard plays a crucial role in the United States, both in its capacity as a reserve component of the armed forces and as a versatile asset that state governors can call on in times of ...

The Fourth Amendment stands for the principle that the government generally may not search its people or seize their belongings without appropriate process and oversight. Today, we are at a ...

The Senate is currently debating the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, a bill that combined two pieces of historic legislation introduced last year. This transformative democracy reform package ...

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 ...