Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

Today, the SAVE Act comes before the Senate. This is the bill that could block more than 21 million Americans from voting, according to our research. The debate could last two weeks, and now is the ...

The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could ...

The bill attacking the freedom to vote should be Congress’s “number one priority.” “It will guarantee the midterms,” he told them. “If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion.” As many readers of ...

Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states ...

The Trump administration’s misuse of the term reached new levels after an ICE officer killed Good in her car. Let’s start with the obvious. Federal agents are not allowed to execute a woman in cold ...

This article was first published at Just Security. Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to ...

At the halfway point in the decade, newly released census data points to continued shifts in representation after the 2030 census, but some big unknowns lurk. New state-level population estimates ...

On November 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case testing the limits of presidential emergency powers. At issue is whether a president may use the International Emergency Economic ...

Mike German is a former fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in ...

A handful of wealthy donors dominate electoral giving and spending in the United States. We need limits on campaign finance, transparency, and effective enforcement of these rules — along with public ...

Adequate transparency and oversight can ensure AI tools in election offices are helpful and not harmful. Any office that works with AI should ensure that it does so with appropriate attention to ...