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 ...

Update: When this article was first published, the SAVE America Act included a provision that would have also required voters to show documents such as a passport or birth certificate at the polls ...

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, ...

This article first appeared at Just Security. In an internal memo made public through a whistleblower report, the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructed ICE officers ...

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 ...

All who care about election integrity should demand answers about the FBI’s unprecedented raid of Fulton County election offices. Last week, the FBI raided election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...