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 ...
Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and ...
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.
The Supreme Court has helped create an electoral system in which competition is scarce, money is dominant, and voting ...
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 ...
The Brennan Center and Ropes & Gray LLP filed an amicus brief urging the First Circuit to uphold contribution limits for super PACs in Maine. Dinner Table Action v. Schneider challenges a 2024 Maine ...
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 ...
America’s immigration rules are unduly harsh, leading to family separation and other needless suffering. This essay is part of the Brennan Center’s series examining the punitive excess that has come ...