Transition 2020-2021
An Opportunity for Democratic Renewal
This was not the election result for which millions of Americans were hoping. It is, however, a tremendous opportunity to bolster and strengthen American democracy.
Latest in Campaign 2020
This was not the election result for which millions of Americans were hoping. It is, however, a tremendous opportunity to bolster and strengthen American democracy.
Congress and ordinary citizens should take steps now to deter the Trump administration from destroying evidence of wrongdoing.
The intelligence bureaucracy still looks remarkably apolitical.
Elections are the one context in which Congress has been clear that otherwise broad authorities are not generally available to the president.
The prospect is a nightmare for the intelligence services.
The Second Amendment doesn’t offer cover to bring a gun to the polls, nor to use one to intimidate voters.
Cyber Command plays a part of the U.S.’s election defense, but other entities are better positioned to defend against certain election interference threats.
The Anti-Defamation League’s monitoring of extremist groups suggests that election-motivated violence could yield more domestic terrorism threats, which if fully realized, could pose a threat to ensuring free and fair elections.
How have state and federal courts handled mail voting litigation?
In a highly polarized country, it is hard to change voter preferences—and this is even more likely to be the case when the tools for doing so represent a tiny, tiny fraction of the information to which would-be voters are exposed.