The Election Security Exchange recommends several low-cost steps election officials can take, many of which they are already ...

In Hungary, one backstop against authoritarian rule has been the European Union. In the United States, perhaps it is the fact ...

Amid new and persistent challenges, local election officials are preparing to ensure the 2026 midterms are safe and secure.

After he won, he vowed Hungary would no longer be “a country without consequences.” As if shaken awake, the media and politicians in our own country have suddenly noticed the corruption issue. The New ...

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...

An increasingly familiar story played out earlier this month when the Supreme Court issued yet another after-hours “shadow docket” order undermining voting rights. This time, the order put a hold on a ...

Understanding how the classification system works is critical to understanding Trump’s culpability — legal and otherwise. Among the government documents that former president Donald Trump improperly ...

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 ...

The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy the military inside the United States and use it against Americans, making it one of the executive branch’s most potent emergency powers. It is also ...

Trump and Speaker Johnson mislead again about election integrity. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. The Brennan ...

Today the League of Women Voters of Michigan — represented by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Campaign Legal Center, and Goodman Acker — filed an amicus brief with the United States Court ...