Rikers Island is a century-old jail complex on an island sandwiched between the Bronx and Queens in New York City. It’s home to 10 city jails, where you will find violence, chaos, and even death. This ...

Then there are the transactions that all seem to end up with the first family being paid — starting with the $28 million paid ...

In its first 100 days, the second Trump administration’s actions have upended seemingly every aspect of American life and government. More than 200 federal lawsuits have challenged its moves, and at ...

The Alien Enemies Act does not apply to U.S. citizens, irrespective of whether they are the natives or dual citizens of a foreign belligerent. Japanese internment, however, targeted both U.S. citizens ...

Today the Brennan Center published a study by the journalist Anna Massoglia. She found that dark money groups spent almost $2 ...

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...

You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­­­­­­­­­let­ter — receive it in your inbox. “In America,” Thomas Paine wrote at the founding, “the law is king.” Amid today’s ...

This article first appeared at Just Security. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. While he has provided few specifics about ...

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a conservative administration, proposed a number of actions that would transform criminal justice policy at the federal level. They are likely to ...

Although the new president undid many of the previous administration’s policing reforms, Trump should still build on the beneficial policies of his first term. Hours into his return to the Oval Office ...