Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution. The first sentence of the 14th Amendment reads, “All persons born or ...

The Major Questions newsletter from Jesse Wegman will put rulings in context and explore ways to fix the Court.

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

Fossil fuel interests donated heavily to President Trump’s 2024 reelection bid. Months after his victory, oil and gas moguls have continued to pump money into his political coffers. Now, as promised ...

After the 2010 election, state lawmakers nationwide started introducing hundreds of harsh measures making it harder to vote. The new laws range from strict photo ID requirements to early voting ...

The presidential election cannot be canceled — the Constitution requires that presidential elections take place this year. No one, not even the president, can cancel the presidential election.

There are 4 million people on probation, which is about the same number of people who live in Connecticut or Oklahoma. Here’s a look at the numbers. While it is common knowledge that America ...

Voter purges are an often-flawed process of cleaning up voter rolls by deleting names from registration lists. The Brennan Center works to ensure that they are nondiscriminatory and do not ...

The United States is one of the only countries in the world with a cash bail system that is dominated by commercial bail bondsmen. This system discriminates against people of color and the poor, and ...

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 ...

Gerrymandering describes the intentional manipulation of district boundaries to discriminate against a group of voters on the basis of their political views or race. The term dates to 1812 when ...

The state legislative push to restrict voting and undermine faith in elections has moved at a near-record pace this year, driven by a still-active election denier movement. At the same time, the ...