Clinton used the address to unveil big new policy proposals, such as his call to use the new budget surplus to “save Social Security first.” George W. Bush launched the run-up to the Iraq War in the ...

Gowri Ramachandran is the director of elections and security in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program. Her work focuses on election security, election administration, and combating ...

In an effort to use whatever shards of power they hold to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Democrats in Congress have refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless ...

You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. For months, we have warned of a drive by President Trump and his administration to undermine ...

In the past month, President Trump has said that he regrets not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in certain states following the 2020 election and that he wants the Republican ...

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 ...

Since May, the Trump administration has been on a quest to collect complete voter files from almost every state. Most states have refused the Justice Department’s unprecedented demands for the data, ...

The practice of counting incarcerated people at their prisons rather than their homes deprives urban communities of color of representation. Across the 11 states in this study, an additional 14 ...

MAGA Inc., the main super PAC supporting President Trump, has raised $305 million since the 2024 election. The sum is completely unprecedented: It’s five times more than the prior record for a ...

You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. Yesterday, The New York Times reported that President Trump personally ordered Director of ...