The administration is using executive actions and public threats to chill future efforts to safeguard elections.

Also emerging: a fierce response, a defense of voting rights that won an important early victory. How this fight unfolds will ...

President Donald Trump has turned a 60-foot-wide strip of federal land that spans three states on the southern border into a ...

Today, political campaigns in the United States saturate the nation with ads, fueled by millions or — at the presidential ...

Remember that in 1789, France’s King Louis XVI, fed up with challenges to his own absolute monarchy, fired the finance minister Jacques Necker, a technocratic Swiss banker. Mobs began to protest.

A federal court ruled that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission must halt implementation of the voting and elections executive order’s mandate to require documentary proof of citizenship in federal ...

Insights from joining correctional leaders, policymakers, and advocates on trips to Germany and Norway to learn about more humane models of criminal justice. Northern Europe’s dignity-first approach ...

Tariffs and favoritism are signs of a poisoned political era. Donald Trump seems to have landed on the time when he thinks America was truly “great”: the late 1800s. Mark Twain named it the Gilded Age ...

Update 4/24/25: A federal court has temporarily blocked the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from implementing a mandate in the president’s executive order to add a requirement to show a passport ...

On March 25, 2025, the president issued an executive order titled Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections. The executive order, among other things, directs the Election ...