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 ...
The Supreme Court has helped create an electoral system in which competition is scarce, money is dominant, and voting ...
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 ...
A presidential order has activated the post-9/11 machinery of federal-state-local law enforcement cooperation to target the administration’s political opponents.
The results of gubernatorial races in dozens of states could lead to benefits for incarcerated people and the broader public.
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 ...
A new Brennan Center survey of local election officials from around the country shows that many election officials have left the field, and more plan to go. In 2020, confronted with the Covid-19 ...
With the rise of online platforms that allow people to place wagers on the likelihood that an event will occur, proposition betting has become increasingly embedded in how people engage with world ...
Summary: A patchwork of nondiscrimination policies has left the Department of Homeland Security with a profiling problem. Our proposed guidance would close the gaps. But these measures are not enough.