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Getting Foreign Funds Out of America's Elections

Commonsense proposals for Congress, states, and the tech companies themselves to regulate digital political advertising.

Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal?

Facebook employees helped craft advertising strategy for the Trump campaign. For free. This may have violated long-standing rules that prohibit in-kind donations from private companies to candidates. It’s time to bring finance regulation and other laws governing Facebook’s conduct into the digital age.

Get Angry Now to Make Congress Protect Mueller—Or Later, After Trump Fires Him

Congress could act to protect special counsel Robert Muller and make it far harder for a panicked president to fire him. Ultimately, though, only a howl of public outrage would be enough to protect the investigation.

Reviving the War on Drugs is Exactly the Wrong Response to the Opioid Crisis

Ames Grawert, James Cullen

Trump administration policies regarding opioids virtually guarantee that people will enter prisons — while doing nothing to confront violent crime.

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How Change Will Slowly Come to A Privately Operated Mississippi Prison
Andrew Cohen

A just-concluded trial shines a harsh light on maximum security prison.

4/18/18
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The Changing Story of the NRA and Russia
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Someone needs to get to the bottom of a Russian oligarch’s funding of the gun rights group.

4/18/18
Blogs
New York Will Restore Voting Rights to People on Parole

The move is a big step forward for democracy in the state, and reaffirms the fundamental truth that discriminatory disenfranchisement laws have no place in our society.

4/18/18
Press Releases
A Message for Midterm Poll Jumpers
Walter Shapiro

It’s not that political handicapping is worthless, but a little humility will go a long way

4/18/18
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Progressive Groups Oppose White House Prison Reform Bill

Focusing solely on reentry leaves systemic mass incarceration unaddressed.

4/18/18
Press Releases

Extreme Gerrymandering and the 2018 Midterm

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The 2020 Census: What's at Stake

Join civil rights leader Vanita Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Wendy Weiser, Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Joseph J. Salvo, Director of the NYC Department of Planning's Population Division, to unpack the many questions and challenges of the upcoming census. They will spotlight work that litigators are doing to bolster the health of the census and ensure the decisions that will impact our society in political and economic ways are made are based on honest and accurate calculations.

4/24/18

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The Corker-Kaine Bill Would Codify, not End, the Forever War
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Getting Foreign Funds Out of America's Elections

Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal?

Get Angry Now to Make Congress Protect Mueller—Or Later, After Trump Fires Him

Reviving the War on Drugs is Exactly the Wrong Response to the Opioid Crisis

Latest Updates

How Change Will Slowly Come to A Privately Operated Mississippi Prison

The Changing Story of the NRA and Russia

New York Will Restore Voting Rights to People on Parole

A Message for Midterm Poll Jumpers

Progressive Groups Oppose White House Prison Reform Bill

Extreme Gerrymandering and the 2018 Midterm

The 2020 Census: What's at Stake

Cuomo Plans to Restore Voting Rights to Paroled Felons

The Corker-Kaine Bill Would Codify, not End, the Forever War

NY Gov. Cuomo Orders Voting Rights Restored for All Parolees