Civil Liberties

A court case shows the complexity of weighing a constitutional guarantee against the obligation to protect the State in war.

Bolot Temirov on the personal cost of the country's repression of media and civil society, as democracy gives way to authoritarianism.

In this top ten list updated weekly, the most important of hundreds of election-law cases are ranked for their rule of law implications.

U.S. Congress should support the Transnational Repression Reporting Act to make clear that cross-border authoritarian repression will not be tolerated in the United States.

In this top ten list updated weekly, the most important of hundreds of election-law cases are ranked for their rule of law implications.

U.S. democracy appears so strong as to be unbreakable. But the billionaire class is its weakest point: small, concentrated, and all too often uninterested in following the rules…

Local officials cannot prevent the results of an election from being finalized — but what comes next could be dangerous.

"It is vital that we discuss the Washington Post’s and L.A. Times’s non-endorsement in the U.S. presidential election, plainly and openly, as what they actually are."

We hope Americans from both sides of the aisle will recognize the peril in withholding the right to vote from active-duty military personnel, from U.S. diplomats, and from all…

In this top ten list updated weekly, the most important of hundreds of election-law cases are ranked for their rule of law implications.

While the rule of law recession persists, the 2024 data show progress on some issues and some countries stepping back from the brink of autocracy.

There is no single cause of political violence in democracies. But one critical source is often overlooked: electoral system design.