A half-century eroded those constraints. The Supreme Court gutted the campaign finance laws and narrowed the definition of ...

Shifts in congressional process, rising violence and distortions of money in politics render making change even harder for ...

After reviewing state voter rolls going back to the 1980s, Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state announced this month ...

The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build ...

The line between public service and private gain continues to blur as financial elites secure pardons and regulatory leniency ...

And Landry acknowledged that she couldn’t even be sure that those 79 were actual cases of ineligible votes being cast — some ...

View the entire Corruption in America collection Fossil fuel interests donated heavily to President Trump’s 2024 reelection bid. Months after his victory, oil and gas moguls have continued to pump ...

Why It Matters Nearly a century after it was first introduced, and four decades after an unsuccessful ratification campaign, the Equal Rights Amendment is making a comeback. In the last two years, ...

Months of unprecedented actions signal that the Trump administration is pursuing a concerted strategy to undermine the next election. One part of that effort is an ongoing attempt to collect voter ...

On Saturday, Trump stated in a Truth Social post, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The post ...

Last Monday, President Trump posted on social media that he would sign an executive order aimed at eliminating mail voting. It would be his second executive order on elections, following a March ...

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 ...