Midterm elections often are waged as a rebuke to the party in control of the White House. Political scientists call this a thermostatic election. Voters adjust the temperature by turning the dial away ...
Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and ...
A presidential order has activated the post-9/11 machinery of federal-state-local law enforcement cooperation to target the administration’s political opponents.
The California AI Transparency Act requires AI-generated images to include digital labels, but most chatbots aren’t looking ...
The Supreme Court has helped create an electoral system in which competition is scarce, money is dominant, and voting ...
For most of 2026, the Court has clearly and repeatedly signaled its hostility to democracy, on both its merits docket and its shadow docket. Those rulings, especially the 6–3 stake through the heart ...
These gaps illuminate the challenge of regulating a growing field of AI activity I call “privileged deployment” — testing, research and other uses of AI models that are available only to their ...
Threat reports from tech firms and independent monitors offer a glimpse of how foreign adversaries are changing tactics.
Artificial intelligence companies have promised to investigate how their models triggered the recent wave of hacking incidents by rogue AI agents. But they should not be the final word on what ...
You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Click here to receive it in your inbox. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.” ...
A one-pager from the Brennan Center for Justice debunking the claim that Congress must renew Section 702 by November 2026 to avoid a lapse in surveillance authority.