Public outrage made a big difference in stalling the anti-voter bill the last time it gained momentum — and it could again.

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

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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 ...

Marina Pino testified before the State of Connecticut General Assembly’s Government Administration and Elections Committee on March 18, 2026 in support of the policy of moving municipal elections to ...

Update: On April 10, 2025, the House passed the SAVE Act. However, the bill failed to advance in the Senate amid nationwide public opposition. In January 2026, lawmakers in both the House and Senate ...

Presidents have access to a dizzying range of powers during a declared emergency. We’re working to enhance Congress’s role as a check against abuse of authority. Emergency powers have existed in ...

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 ...

Federal court decisions against some Trump administration policies have led to calls from the president’s supporters to impeach judges, and in March 2025 President Trump himself said that a federal ...

Mike German is a former fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in ...

X (formerly Twitter) threads on Reporting That HPSCI Chair Mike Turner Showed Slides of People Protesting US Aid to Israel in a Closed Door Briefing as Justification Against Section 702 Reform (Read ...

The bill attacking the freedom to vote should be Congress’s “number one priority.” “It will guarantee the midterms,” he told them. “If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion.” As many readers of ...