Predictable turnover on the high court would improve its stability and accountability, and the justices would still be safe ...

What if political parties are a big part of the answer? I know, I know. You have mixed feelings about parties. So did James ...

A new Brennan Center survey finds that large majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independents share deep-seated concerns about government corruption, which most voters define broadly and blame ...

President Donald Trump’s March executive order on elections has made headlines and drawn legal challenges, including from the Brennan Center. But the order is only part of his administration’s harmful ...

The U.S. incarceration system is broken. Prisons are largely unable to address the underlying circumstances that can lead to crime, such as mental illness and lack of housing or education. They are ...

An increasingly familiar story played out earlier this month when the Supreme Court issued yet another after-hours “shadow docket” order undermining voting rights. This time, the order put a hold on a ...

This article first appeared at Just Security. In a previous pos t, I described the political landscape for this year’s Section 702 reauthorization debate and noted the view of most observers that ...

It’s epic corruption in plain sight. History shows that after scandal comes reform — often, but not always. In January, the Brennan Center published Nine Solutions for Political Corruption. In it, we ...

The Brennan Center and the Center for Democracy and Technology released a joint statement enumerating six major civil and human rights concerns arising out of the social media surveillance of students ...

Last week, President Trump issued a new executive order that aims to illegally rewrite the rules for federal elections. The principal thrust of the order is to charge the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ...

Skewed maps give Republicans big advantages in 11 states, mostly in the South and Midwest. This November, Americans will vote in another close election for the House of Representatives. If polls are ...

In late March, the Supreme Court will hear a case where Republican voters argue that Maryland’s Sixth Congressional District is an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Maryland defends the map, ...