In gun cases, more than in other areas of constitutional law, Supreme Court justices increasingly rely on legal scholarship.

After his Friday meeting with Vladimir Putin, President Trump bragged that the dictator had backed one of his conspiracy ...

The so-called One Big Beautiful Act allocates more than $170 billion over four years for border and interior enforcement, ...

After its successful start in 2024, a large majority of voters across parties want state leaders to keep funding New York’s ...

Voters should choose their politicians, not the other way around. The Texas gerrymander and the partisan war it has triggered ...

The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one of the nation’s most troubled jails. But durable reform depends ultimately ...

President Donald Trump’s proclamation blocking nationals of 19 countries from entering the United States is cloaked in the language of national security but is not tailored to further that goal.

It hurts ordinary Americans in concrete ways, and the risk has never been greater given today’s unprecedented mixing of private wealth with political power.

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter. Receive it in your inbox. Will voters have the final say in 2026? In recent years, despite the pandemic, violence, ...

The Supreme Court’s so-called shadow docket for emergency motions has played an outsized role in legal challenges against the new Trump administration. On issues ranging from dismantling the ...