The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to ...

The administration's promise to go after protestors for their social media posts is an extraordinary assertion of executive power.

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 are among the most reviled laws in our national history. They criminalized dissent, ...

When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited El Salvador in early February to meet with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, Rubio announced that Bukele had offered to house “dangerous American ...

Today’s fight to vote does not yet call on us to show the physical bravery displayed by the heroes on the Edmund Pettus ...

Citizen initiatives, even popular ones, are exceedingly hard to pass in Florida. This legislative term, coming off an election in which abortion rights and marijuana decriminalization initiatives came ...

This article first appeared in Just Security. The lead intelligence unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — long plagued by politicized targeting, permissive rules, and a toxic culture — ...

The president’s justification for using an 18th-century law to deport immigrants is a flimsy pretext. You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in ...

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 ...