For too long, this law has allowed the government to evade privacy protections and spy on Americans. Reform is overdue.

The order instructs the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots unless the voters are on a list of approved citizens ...

Preliminary studies suggest that innovative programs could improve prison conditions and outcomes after release.

Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution. The first sentence of the 14th Amendment reads, “All persons born or ...

Privacy laws in this country are badly outdated, creating gaps that data brokers and government agencies can exploit. For instance, the Electronic Communications ...

You’re reading The Briefing, Michael Waldman’s weekly newsletter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. In The Crack-Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...

Liza Goitein on National Security Law Today: Debating Section 702: National Security or Invasion of Privacy? With Liza Goitein (ABA National Security Law Today ...

The letter from Brennan Center President Michael Waldman urges the Senate to reject the SAVE America Act which, like the SAVE Act before it, would block millions of eligible American citizens from ...

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 ...

Mike German is a former fellow in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in ...