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) ...

In late September, President Trump signed an executive order purporting to designate “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.” A few days later, he issued National Security Presidential ...

From Iran to Venezuela, the U.S. military is rolling out an “AI-first” approach to warfare. But the recent dispute between the Defense Department and artificial intelligence company Anthropic raises ...

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 ...

President Trump’s budget bill will codify much of his immigration agenda, drastically changing the landscape of enforcement and detention. Significantly, the bill funds a giant immigration detention ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence didn’t disrupt the 2024 election, but the effects are likely to be greater in the future. The run-up to the 2024 election was marked by predictions that artificial intelligence ...

Members of Congress are allowed to trade stocks, and almost all of them own shares in public companies. Placing stricter rules on congressional stock trading is a key ethics reform that’s critical to ...

State elections the year after a presidential contest are often seen as bellwethers for which party has momentum. This year’s elections were likely trendsetters in another respect: Several races broke ...

When North Carolina redrew its legislative and congressional districts 10 years ago, the Voting Rights Act required that it — along with other states with a history of racial discrimination — submit ...

Public campaign financing is a reform on the march. Recognizing it as the most powerful response to the last decade’s explosion of big money in politics, state and local governments have enacted new ...

The Supreme Court is set to decide a case that could overturn laws in 30 states that provide grace periods, which allow counting mail ballots received after Election Day but sent on time. Meanwhile, ...