Republicans in Congress, supported vocally by the Trump administration, are pushing for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act. It now appears to have majority support in ...

An excerpt from his essay: A specter is haunting American democracy: widespread voter ignorance. The specter is not a new one, by any means. But it is exacerbated by growing political polarization, ...

Here is the NYT obituary. Condolences to his family and friends. I’ve been reading a lot about Jackson, including Abby Phillips’ excellent new book, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

The strict voter identification measure that Republicans pushed through the House last week was just their opening salvo in a monthslong effort to establish new voting restrictions they regard as ...

The SAVE America Act to require proof of citizenship nationwide to register to vote and overhaul voting laws has now topped 50 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate. The bill is supported by ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Politico: A flood of Republican-backed efforts to tighten voter ID laws is serving as a distraction from more serious threats to the American voting system, according to top election security experts.

Edward H. Crane, who built the Cato Institute into the nation’s pre-eminent libertarian think tank before forfeiting his leadership in 2012 during a power struggle with the billionaire Koch brothers, ...

A Republican-led effort to purge roughly 225,000 North Carolina voters from the state’s rolls would be largely abandoned under a settlement agreement that national Democrats and Republicans filed in ...

There was a lot to worry about before Minnesota State Rep. Meg Luger-Nikolai romped to victory in the Jan. 27 special election to fill a vacant St. Paul state legislative seat. Her district, like ...