Transparency

Overhauling U.S. policies for preventing and responding to civilian harm will require sustained engagement from Congress.

Iran’s missile program is a cause for international concern. Just last month, Iran launched a missile attack on Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region; in January 2020,…

"Neglecting past cases would be a grave mistake that could damage the credibility of an otherwise promising process."

Stronger tools are needed for regulators to identify the true owners of financial holdings.

To counter Russian disinformation operations, western governments should commit more deeply to transparency and openness.

At one-year mark of Biden administration, top experts revisit proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government.

"A long step toward the ultimate freedom: the realization that there is no them, there is only us."

"It is simply not credible that the entire investigative report must be withheld in order to protect (as one imagines the claim) sources and methods of intelligence-gathering."

Of the many abuses that sprung from the Patriot Act’s toxic soil, the most pernicious and enduring is the growth of secret laws. The insistence that the government must not only…

The lack of uniform procedures for sealing federal court records has resulted in excessive secrecy that has caused considerable harm.

Review: Casey Michel's book, “American Kleptocracy,” tells the tale of US financial secrecy via two of the world’s great kleptocrats.

The bipartisan National Security Powers Act is a bold set of necessary and mutually reinforcing war powers reforms that would finally reset the balance of power between the political…