• The Election in Hungary Could Help Curb the Rightward Shift in Europe, a Researcher Believes

    The opposition in Hungary has a good chance of winning the election on April 12, according to researchers. This could have major consequences, both for Hungarians and for the rest of Europe.

  • Hungarian Election Exposes Tensions at the Heart of Donald Trump’s Plans to Boost the Far‑Right in Europe

    The world will be watching on April 12 when Hungarians head to the polls in parliamentary elections that will determine the country’s next prime minister. This may sound exaggerated, but these parliamentary elections are about much more than simply whether the incumbent prime minister, Viktor Orbán, will serve another term as Hungary’s leader.

  • There’s Hope for the Offshore Wind Industry — Yes, Really

    Trump and Interior Department chief Doug Burgum have spent months in an all-out assault against the wind energy. They have frozen all new leases, repealed clean energy tax credits, and even paid off an oil company to not build a planned wind project. In December, Burgum paused work on five under-construction wind farms on “national security” grounds. But the administration’s no-holds-barred attack on wind energy has taken a beating in the courts, giving the beleaguered industry a chance to get back on stable footing.

  • Israel’s Death Penalty Law Has Little to Do with Criminal Justice and Everything to Do with Ethno‑Nationalism

    Under a law passed by the Israeli parliament on March 30, 2026, death by hanging will now become the default sentence for some offenses – but only in effect when the crime is carried out by Palestinians. Scholars of comparative authoritarianism have long identified the selective application of harsh criminal penalties as a hallmark of illiberal governance.

  • New York City’s Spike in 3D-Printed Guns Prompts Push for Tougher Laws

    Police in the nation’s biggest city are recovering a growing number of 3D-printed guns. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is advocating legislation that would make 3D-printing guns a crime.

  • Artificial Intelligence Is Facing a Crisis of Control—and the Industry Knows It

    Washington appears to be years away from consensus on the expanding security risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence (AI). Concrete international agreements also do not yet exist. There is a tenuous potential path forward to avoid a disaster, but it will require out-of-the-box thinking, intense determination, and unprecedented cooperation.

  • April 2, 2025: A Day of Economic Lunacy, Not Liberation

    A year ago this week, President Trump walked into the White House Rose Garden, held up a poster board with nonsensical tariff rates on imports from virtually every country in the world, and declared April 2, 2025, “Liberation Day.” History will likely view April 2, 2025, as a day of economic infamy, not liberation. After a year, the tariffs are failing their stated objectives, including their central premise: to reshore domestic manufacturing.

  • How Viktor Orbán’s Hungary Eroded the Rule of Law and Free Markets

    Many on the right see Viktor Orbán’s Hungary as a model. In fact, far from being a model, Orbán’s Hungary is a cautionary tale of what results from an unrestrained executive with strongly centralized power, crony capitalism, and the systematic dismantling of the rule of law.

  • Democrats Sue to Block Trump’s “Unconstitutional” Mail Ballot Order

    Democrats sued over President Donald Trump’s executive order clamping down on mail ballots. The order, which would create a national list of voting-age American citizens and directs the U.S. Postal Service to place limits on mail-in ballots, constitutes an extraordinary and illegal attempt by Trump to intervene in the voting process, election experts said.

  • The Failure of the Henchman Strategy: Pam Bondi and the Cost of Political Incursion

    Pam Bondi politicized DOJ and the law to an unprecedented degree – but this was not enough for a president bent on turning DOJ into a tool for his personal vendettas and who was frustrated that Bondi’s aggressive tactics had failed to convict a single “enemy” of his. The next attorney general must take a different approach from Bondi’s: When a president requests that the law be violated, an ethical attorney general must maintain his or her integrity.

  • Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

    In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.

  • DOJ Confirms Voter Data Sharing with Homeland Security, but Denies Building National List

    The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed in court Thursday that it is sharing sensitive voter data with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizen voters. But a DOJ lawyer denied the department is building a national voter database. The Trump administration has sued dozens of states for their voter lists.

  • FCC Chair Carr’s Threats to Punish Broadcasters Are Unconstitutional

    FCC’s chairman Brendan Carr’s recent threats — that the FCC’s “public interest” standard allows him to revoke the licenses of broadcasters who publish news that is unflattering to the government — are unconstitutional efforts to coerce news coverage that favors President Donald Trump.

  • SAVE America Act: We’ll Have to Pass the Bill to Find Out What’s in It

    The proposed SAVE America Act grabs broad power over voting and registration that should remain with the states and hands it over to executive branch appointees. Once the Trump administration has in hand the voter rolls of the 50 states, as the law provides, we can count on neither its respect for legal privacy safeguards nor its responsible use of evidence should it decide to claim irregularity as a reason to interfere in elections.

  • DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator

    The Trump administration has been particularly aggressive in its attacks on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the bipartisan independent regulator that approves commercial nuclear power plants and monitors their safety. The agency is not a household name. But it’s considered the international gold standard, often influencing safety rules around the world.