Our government has entered a new and dangerous era of corruption. This is a reason it so often fails to work, a cause of the ...

Hochul is hardly a firebrand. Her creative move reflects the growing public alarm and anger at a federal government that has ...

Trump’s operation in Venezuela is a stark departure from the Panama case. Venezuela has not declared a state of war with the United States. Nor has Venezuela perpetrated an armed invasion or incursion ...

One thing is clear: Trump’s bombing and regime-decapitation operation in Venezuela was unconstitutional. The Constitution ...

For a generation, presidential races were blowouts. Every winner between 1980 and 1996 triumphed by at least 37 electoral college votes. It was a calmer time for U.S. elections. Landslides relegated ...

State governments in 2025 are nearly on pace to match the number of restrictive voting laws enacted in 2021, when states enacted more restrictive legislation than at any other point so far in the 14 ...

Analyzing the president’s use of military, police, and security services in the nation’s capital. At the same time, the president signaled that D.C. may be a testing ground for this strategy, to be ...

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 ...

In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials ...

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 ...

In 2018, Americans across the country will go to the polls to vote for their congressional representatives. Most states will also elect their state legislature. The choices that voters have will ...

The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ensure effective enforcement. A number of President Trump’s recent actions, ...