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 ...

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 ...

A new era of anticorruption reform is long overdue. American public institutions urgently need repair and renewal. The 2024 election was the first time since the 1800s that the incumbent party lost ...

New threats to strip opponents of citizenship recall a dark history. The Trump administration and its supporters have made numerous threats to revoke the citizenship of political foes who are ...

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics. The power of the prosecutor is tremendous, ...

The historic ruling shows how states can push back against the president’s use of the military as a domestic police force. A federal court has ruled that President Trump’s use of the National Guard ...

In 1965, a nonviolent voting rights march in Alabama culminated in a televised, brutal attack by state police. The public outrage that followed prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act, a law ...

The Court has repeatedly halted lower court orders and allowed administration policies to go forward via its “shadow docket” without any explanation. The Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket for ...

The result will be a lopsided, enforcement-only machine that will be hard to dismantle. The so-called One Big Beautiful Act allocates more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior ...

States must step up to help election officials protect their staff, facilities, and voting systems. The 2024 election was widely regarded as an administrative success. 1 It went off largely without a ...

Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states ...

President Trump’s budget bill will codify much of his immigration agenda, drastically changing the landscape of enforcement and detention. Significantly, the bill funds a giant immigration detention ...