Midterm elections often are waged as a rebuke to the party in control of the White House. Political scientists call this a thermostatic election. Voters adjust the temperature by turning the dial away ...

The Supreme Court has helped create an electoral system in which competition is scarce, money is dominant, and voting ...

A majority of voters in the Deep South disagree with their states’ extreme restrictions, highlighting the disconnect between the public and the legislators who represent them.

Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and ...

The results of gubernatorial races in dozens of states could lead to benefits for incarcerated people and the broader public.

The California AI Transparency Act requires AI-generated images to include digital labels, but most chatbots aren’t looking ...

These gaps illuminate the challenge of regulating a growing field of AI activity I call “privileged deployment” — testing, research and other uses of AI models that are available only to their ...

A presidential order has activated the post-9/11 machinery of federal-state-local law enforcement cooperation to target the administration’s political opponents.

For most of 2026, the Court has clearly and repeatedly signaled its hostility to democracy, on both its merits docket and its shadow docket. Those rulings, especially the 6–3 stake through the heart ...

A one-pager from the Brennan Center for Justice debunking the claim that Congress must renew Section 702 by November 2026 to avoid a lapse in surveillance authority.

The Brennan Center has created resources to help local officials protect election integrity. The Brennan Center’s handbooks review federal and state laws and regulations that may help election ...

The Brennan Center and UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy track voting legislation around the country, keeping an eye on measures that restrict or expand voting access, improve security, or ...