Skewed maps give Republicans big advantages in 11 states, mostly in the South and Midwest. This November, Americans will vote in another close election for the House of Representatives. If polls are ...

The Election Security Exchange recommends several low-cost steps election officials can take, many of which they are already ...

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...

Lauren-Brooke Eisen is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, where she leads the organization’s work to ensure a more fair, humane, and effective justice system. Her team ...

Understanding how the classification system works is critical to understanding Trump’s culpability — legal and otherwise. Among the government documents that former president Donald Trump improperly ...

In Hungary, one backstop against authoritarian rule has been the European Union. In the United States, perhaps it is the fact ...

After years of decline, crime rose during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly violent crime. Using available but incomplete data, this analysis seeks to set out a clear and accurate summary of what is ...

Michael Waldman is president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. A nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on improving systems of democracy and justice, the ...

Editor’s note: A more recent snapshot of state-level voting laws — both expansive and restrictive — can be found here. Across the country, the effort to restrict the vote continues, with a wave of ...

In 2019, Colorado, New Mexico, Delaware and Oregon became the latest states to take a stand against the Electoral College and join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV). The NPV is a ...

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) ...

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 ...