Trump’s operation in Venezuela is a stark departure from the Panama case. Venezuela has not declared a state of war with the ...

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

The Trump administration’s abrupt termination of funding for criminal justice data and research will upend years of progress toward building safer communities. April 2025’s abrupt funding cuts at the ...

Gowri Ramachandran is the director of elections and security in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program. Her work focuses on election security, election administration, and combating ...

Kevin Morris is a senior research fellow and voting policy scholar at the Brennan Center, where he focuses on voting rights, election administration, and the effects of the criminal justice system on ...

Ames Grawert is senior counsel and John L. Neu Justice Counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. He leads quantitative and policy research focused on trends in crime and the collateral costs of ...

This year, we saw extraordinary threats to American democracy: an executive power grab, threats to the freedom to vote, and more. Yet we also saw a growing response, from court rulings to citizen ...