The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could ...

Indeed, just hours after launching the Iran war, Trump reposted a headline on Truth Social claiming, “Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with ...

The bill attacking the freedom to vote should be Congress’s “number one priority.” “It will guarantee the midterms,” he told them. “If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion.” As many readers of ...

Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states ...

On November 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case testing the limits of presidential emergency powers. At issue is whether a president may use the International Emergency Economic ...

The Trump administration’s misuse of the term reached new levels after an ICE officer killed Good in her car. Let’s start with the obvious. Federal agents are not allowed to execute a woman in cold ...

Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process. Last year, the Brennan Center partnered with VoteRiders, the Center ...

Federal court decisions against some Trump administration policies have led to calls from the president’s supporters to impeach judges, and in March 2025 President Trump himself said that a federal ...

The threat that corruption poses to democracy has never been greater, requiring bold reforms to return power to the American people. Public corruption — the abuse of public office for private gain — ...

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) for police have been getting substantial publicity lately. In national protests spurred by the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of police officers, activists and ...

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 ...

Summary: Election officials, internet companies, the federal government, and the public must act to defend the 2020 elections against digital disinformation attacks designed to suppress the vote.