The opening sentence of George Packer’s sobering new essay in The Atlantic: “We are living in an authoritarian state.” After detailing “the features of the modern authoritarian state,” he writes: ...

A new AEI report by Kevin R. Kosar, Jack Santucci, and Jaehun Lee on the new proportional representation system adopted by Portland, Oregon. I’m looking forward to reading the report. Meanwhile, the ...

The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The ...

How likely is it that federal troops will be in United States cities on election day in 2026? Have federal agencies moved from allies of state and local election administrators to impediments … ...

The 2020 presidential elections in Belarus were considered fraudulent by most Western democracies. Despite massive support for opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, which independent monitors ...

The president has demanded the department go after one of his foremost enemies, even though career prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Mr. Comey. “Prosecutors have been ...

Today’s entry in the NYU Law Democracy Project’s 100 ideas for 100 days series, by Samuel Moyn, argues for “[m]aking the votes of the younger count for more” in order to counteract the political power ...

The organizers aim to collect 600,000 signatures to ensure they have at least 426,000 valid names to qualify for the statewide November 2026 ballot.” The story goes on to say: “If the law were in ...

Randy Barnett’s contribution to The NYU Law Democracy Project’s “100 ideas in 100 days” series asks this question. I encourage you to read for a succinct statement of his viewpoint. Whether or not he ...

Nebraska Examiner reports on the Common Cause lawsuit.

When people perceive politics as existential, they believe the country will never be the same, in a fundamental way, if the other side prevails. The other side is not merely the opposition, but … Cont ...

Over at TPM, I wonder whether a brilliant bit of South Park satire may shed some helpful light on the magical wishcasting of unilateral federal executive control over electoral process.