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

The Treasury Department’s inspector general recently issued a report warning that the IRS’s purchase of GPS location data may be unconstitutional in light of a landmark 2018 Supreme Court decision ...

This article first appeared in Slate. As recent reports have revealed, former President Donald Trump and his allies are making plans for how a second Trump administration would use the powers of the ...

Election deniers have targeted certification as a way to interfere with election results, but there are legal protections in place against such efforts. Certification — the statutory process by which ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. Voters should choose their politicians, not the other way around. The Texas gerrymander and ...

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 midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...

Fundraising for the 2022 midterm election and the 2024 presidential election are already in full swing. The Democratic National Committee bragged that in the first 100 days of the Biden administration ...

This article first appeared in Just Security. Throughout his campaign, President Donald Trump referred to unlawful migration as an “invasion.” Some interpreted this language as a purely rhetorical ...

This was originally published by CQ Researcher. The ruling in Trump v. United States is an affront to democracy and the rule of law, forfeiting critical checks on executive power. It undermines ...

The federal government’s SAVE tool is prone to error, and its misuse risks disenfranchising Americans and eroding trust in elections. This year, observers should be wary of voter fraud claims made by ...