Rikers Island is a century-old jail complex on an island sandwiched between the Bronx and Queens in New York City. It’s home ...

Then there are the transactions that all seem to end up with the first family being paid — starting with the $28 million paid ...

The hundreds of legal challenges to executive actions expose the administration’s efforts to seize legislative authority.

Today the Brennan Center published a study by the journalist Anna Massoglia. She found that dark money groups spent almost $2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DHS Social Media Monitoring Pilot Programs: A 2017 DHS Inspector General report disclosed three DHS pilot programs that used automated search tools for social media screening of refugee and ...

The Brennan Center works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free. Here’s how you can help.

Millions of Americans are barred from voting because of criminal convictions in their past. Felony disenfranchisement laws — relics of Jim Crow — hit Black Americans disproportionately hard because of ...

Elizabeth “Liza” Goitein is senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. Before joining the Brennan Center, Goitein served as counsel to Sen. Russ Feingold, chair of ...

The Brennan Center works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free. Here’s how you can help.

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last week to address what he described as harmful foreign trade and economic practices. Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, ...