Constitution

An expert explainer by leading expert on the domestic deployment of the U.S. military.

"If the new administration goes through with this proposal whether by executive action or legislation, courts should and most likely would strike it down."

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

The practical and political stakes of this admittedly esoteric question of constitutional law are high, implicating as it does the effectiveness of the United States’ engagement…

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…

"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."

Recent changes to this Defense Department directive do not reflect any change in policy and provide no new authority to deploy the military domestically or to use lethal force…

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…

Messaging platforms such as have become highly influential tools for manipulating and misleading voters around the world.

Following his recommendation would secure the grip of ethnonationalists and those responsible for the “fragile” conditions he laments.

Messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Viber have become highly influential tools for manipulating and misleading voters.

Will the General Assembly elect Thailand to a seat on the Human Rights Council despite the country's cascading decline in human rights protections and democratic freedoms?