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 ...

The SAVE Act threatens to block millions of Americans from voting while also imposing significant burdens on state and local ...

By cutting critical funding, coordination, and support from numerous agencies, the administration is making it harder for ...

Insights from joining correctional leaders, policymakers, and advocates on trips to Germany and Norway to learn about more humane models of criminal justice.

Donald Trump seems to have landed on the time when he thinks America was truly “great”: the late 1800s. Mark Twain named it ...

Today, the Articles are ignored as a false start. That’s a mistake. The Constitution was an explicit attempt to form a union ...

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last week to address what he described as harmful foreign trade and economic practices. Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax increase in decades and have upended global ...