The NYPD’s decision to monitor Muslims solely on the basis of their religion is not conducive to building trust.
Fighting back against restrictive voting-rights laws and empowering small donors can help reclaim elections.
Americans’ attitudes about the influence of Super PAC spending on government and the implications for our democracy.
As international criminal law ripens into a discipline with practical application, the Brennan Center’s Faiza Patel analyzes the current debates on the international crime of waging aggressive war. Her essay in the Research Handbook on International Criminal Law considers whether the International Criminal Court (ICC) is equipped to decide whether a particular use of force constitutes a crime of aggression.
Fritz Schwarz delivered a lecture entitled “The National Security State and Other Dangers to Democracy” on November 11, 2010, at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
“Crisis and its cousin fear always make it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that keep us free. That is not new. But America has been living in an atmosphere of crisis for an unusally long time.”