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

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

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

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

In the wake of serious abuses, the 2024 law improves transparency and accountability in the nation’s largest prison system.

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. President Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago to “straighten that one out.” New ...

A majority of Americans and both parties say there should be more restrictions on members of Congress trading stocks.

Meddling in the census fits into the Trump administration’s broader efforts to manipulate data and institutions to skew ...

Two appeals courts in the past few days have issued resounding rulings that many of President Trump’s high-profile moves on ...

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 ...

Analyzing the president’s use of military, police, and security services in the nation’s capital. At the same time, the president signaled that D.C. may be a testing ground for this strategy, to be ...

The Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket for emergency motions has played an outsized role in legal challenges against the new Trump administration. On issues ranging from dismantling the ...