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 ...

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 ...

Since Thursday, the bipartisan Federal Election Commission hasn’t been able do its job. That’s because the independent agency, which oversees money in campaigns for federal office, no longer has the ...

70.9 percent of white voters cast ballots compared with only 58.4 percent of nonwhite voters — a disparity that will worsen with new restrictive voting laws. In the 2020 election, voter turnout surged ...

Big companies have made statements in support of racial justice, but it’s time for them to put their money where their mouth is, writes Brennan Center Fellow Caroline Fredrickson. Prompted by the ...

More than 10 federal courts have temporarily halted or rejected actions by the new Trump administration on issues ranging from spending to birthright citizenship. Dozens more lawsuits against the ...