With 112 days to go until Election Day, President Trump’s drive to undermine the vote continues. As time runs short, his ...

This was originally published by Democracy Journal. Gerrymandering is not a new problem in the United States. Even the founding generation was not immune to its temptations: Patrick Henry famously ...

Summary: Financial incentives throughout the criminal justice system encourage punitive enforcement and sustain mass incarceration. Realigning them will require action from municipalities to the ...

The executive branch has amassed increasing power in recent years, challenging the constitutional balance among branches of government. This year alone, the president has ignored the laws passed by ...

Analyzing the president’s use of military, police, and security services in the nation’s capital. At the same time, the president signaled that D.C. may be a testing ground for this strategy, to be ...

Our study shows that women and officeholders of color face the brunt of threats and harassment. State-level reforms must be passed to preserve diversity. This was originally published in Ms. Magazine.

A federal judge in Texas made news in January when he allowed a suit filed by Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to proceed against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion, based ...

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 ...

Nearly all election jurisdictions across the country use voting machines to count ballots because they are more accurate, faster, and cheaper than counting all ballots by hand. Hand counts fail when ...

Two high-profile deaths of men in custody and an unauthorized strike by corrections officers in the last year exhibited the systemic crisis within New York State’s prisons. The legislature responded ...

The industry’s voluntary commitments are no substitute for enforceable regulations and external oversight. One year ago this week, 27 artificial intelligence companies and social media platforms ...