Our government has entered a new and dangerous era of corruption. This is a reason it so often fails to work, a cause of the ...

Trump and Speaker Johnson mislead again about election integrity. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The Brennan ...

Community supervision must be transformed in order to help people caught up in the justice system, not hurt them further. This essay is part of the Brennan Center’s series examining the punitive ...

The result will be a lopsided, enforcement-only machine that will be hard to dismantle. The so-called One Big Beautiful Act allocates more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior ...

The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy the military inside the United States and use it against Americans, making it one of the executive branch’s most potent emergency powers. It is also ...

The presidential election cannot be canceled — the Constitution requires that presidential elections take place this year. No one, not even the president, can cancel the presidential election.

The Brennan Center for Justice fights in court to ensure the vital census count is done fairly and accurately. Every ten years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a count — the census — of all the people ...

On July 1, Congress passed a budget bill that gives an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This massive increase in ...

Since May, the Justice Department has demanded that nearly every state and Washington, DC, hand over election-related records and data, such as full copies of statewide voter registration lists and ...

Hochul is hardly a firebrand. Her creative move reflects the growing public alarm and anger at a federal government that has ...

Trump’s operation in Venezuela is a stark departure from the Panama case. Venezuela has not declared a state of war with the United States. Nor has Venezuela perpetrated an armed invasion or incursion ...

Leading up to the 2016 election, agents of the Russian government reached tens of millions of Americans on social media. This online activity, fueled in part by ad spending, went undetected during the ...