In March 2025, two members of the DOGE team communicated with a political advocacy group that was seeking to “find evidence ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. At his press conference on the U.S. military operation in Venezuela to ...

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

The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...

This article was first published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on February 18. When the FBI raids an office, any office, it looks like someone is up to something bad. The Jan. 28 raid of the ...

This article first appeared in Just Security. Throughout his campaign, President Donald Trump referred to unlawful migration as an “invasion.” Some interpreted this language as a purely rhetorical ...

A whole new generation of Americans have come and gone since Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and perhaps “others unknown” blew up the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, ...

A newspaper reports on challenges of Black voters in Wake County, North Carolina. The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), July 29, 1872 (Library of Congress). The first laws allowing private ...

Election deniers are abusing voter roll procedures, using false claims of widespread fraud to contest people’s eligibility to be on the rolls or cast a ballot. Since 2020, mass voter challenges have ...

A new executive order says that the government will only buy artificial intelligence models that are neutral and nonpartisan, but in reality, the policy would require technology companies to conform ...

In the 2024 election cycle, voters nationwide had to contend with the threat of being unjustly removed from the voter rolls, stricter ID requirements to cast their ballots, and long lines on Election ...

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 ...