The Major Questions newsletter from Jesse Wegman will put rulings in context and explore ways to fix the Court.

Public outrage made a big difference in stalling the anti-voter bill the last time it gained momentum — and it could again.

The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight ...

Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who ...

Summary: Financial incentives throughout the criminal justice system encourage punitive enforcement and sustain mass incarceration. Realigning them will require action from municipalities to the ...

Bad data and a politicized overhaul could spread election fraud lies and disenfranchise voters. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or “SAVE,” program was designed to help states ...

At the halfway point in the decade, newly released census data points to continued shifts in representation after the 2030 census, but some big unknowns lurk. New state-level population estimates ...

Marina Pino testified before the State of Connecticut General Assembly’s Government Administration and Elections Committee on March 18, 2026 in support of the policy of moving municipal elections to ...

Presidents have access to a dizzying range of powers during a declared emergency. We’re working to enhance Congress’s role as a check against abuse of authority. Emergency powers have existed in ...

Update: On April 10, 2025, the House passed the SAVE Act. However, the bill failed to advance in the Senate amid nationwide public opposition. In January 2026, lawmakers in both the House and Senate ...

The state legislative push to restrict voting and undermine faith in elections has moved at a near-record pace this year, driven by a still-active election denier movement. At the same time, the ...

Federal court decisions against some Trump administration policies have led to calls from the president’s supporters to impeach judges, and in March 2025 President Trump himself said that a federal ...