• AI Can Sway Voter Behavior—EU Regulations Fall Short, Study Reveals

    AI systems are increasingly shaping public opinion, often in very subtle ways. A new study reveals that current legislation, such as the EU AI Act, is ill-equipped to handle this shift.

  • The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law

    One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps pursuing similar cases, puzzling legal experts.

  • FCC Threats and the Fog of War: The Government Cannot Be the Arbiter of Truth

    After President Trump’s accused several news organizations of being “Fake News Media” for “terrible reporting” on the Iran conflict, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened that the licenses of news organizations would be at risk if they reported what the administration regarded as “misinformation.” This episode should remind Americans that letting the government decide what information may be shared and what counts as truth is a dangerous game.

  • In Bid for Voter Data, Trump’s DOJ Lays Groundwork to Undermine Confidence in Midterms

    The U.S. Department of Justice has begun connecting its push to obtain sensitive personal data on millions of voters to whether the upcoming midterm elections will be fair and secure, laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to cast doubt on the results. DOJ says state rolls are needed to ensure fairness of elections.

  • Meet the AI rapper Funded by a Far-Right Party

    The far-right party Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real: He is an AI-generated persona.

  • In Its Hunt for Critical Minerals, the U.S. Is Misconstruing What Is and Is Not America’s

    The minerals on the U.S. seabed are America’s. The minerals on the international seabed are not “America’s.” The administration plans to authorize companies to mine in international areas, nonetheless.

  • Five Foreign Election Conspiracy Theories Making the Rounds Again

    After the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a flurry of conspiracy theories emerged alleging that President Trump’s reelection victory was “stolen” through massive fraud. These theories were all thoroughly debunked. More than 50 court cases rejected Trump and his allies’ claims as meritless. But Trump remains unable to cope with his loss. As a result, debunked conspiracy theories about 2020 fraud are being dredged up again as pretext for consolidating federal control over elections.

  • The Illusion of Reform: Why DHS Restraints Fail Without a Path to the Courthouse

    Correcting DHS’s deplorable behavior will not be accomplished by a small tweak to the specific ways in which agents target civilians, but rather by a strong deterrent. Now is the time to demand systemic reform. We must ensure that no government agent is above the law or cloaked in immunity.

  • How to Prevent Elections from Being Stolen − Lessons from Around the World for the U.S.

    President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address doubled down on his false claims that the U.S. elections system is compromised. His persistent effort to denigrate and spread distrust in the U.S. electoral process has led to speculation about how much further he might go to tilt the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential elections in favor of candidates he supports.

  • As Trump Pushes Voting Restrictions, States Have a Rarely Used Option to Push Back

    President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress try to impose a proof-of-citizenship voter registration requirement nationwide through a long-shot proposal called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or SAVE America Act. Blue states would have a major tool — having separate rules for non-federal elections –with which to push back. Whether they would use it is less clear.

  • U.S. Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Cuban Land Claims

    Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of Cuban claims to land during two oral arguments last week in which U.S. companies were seeking to recover decades-old losses under a law targeting Cuba’s communist government.

  • Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment

    Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was tried and convicted in the U.S. in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking bribes to allow traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S. Trump pardoned him, and then ICE dropped its detainer on him so he could be whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

  • New York Times—Voice of Reason on Election Administration?

    California’s election rules result in considerable delays in announcing the winners of elections. A New York Times editorial —“California, You Have Got to Count Votes Faster” – notes that such delays play into the hands of bad-faith political leaders, such as President Trump, who lie about vote counting and fraud to sow doubt in any election outcome they do not like.Butas the New York Times editorialshows, calls for speeding up the counting of votes should not be dismissed as the barking of election-deniers and Trump conspiracy theorists. 

  • ICE Arrest Shines Light on Undocumented Irish Population in Trump’s America

    This schism between settled and sojourner Irish in the U.S. is rarely mentioned, yet significant. The undocumented Irish take on a symbolic resonance, disrupting the common success narrative of how the Irish “made it” in the US. In the past, the law was applied leniently to overstays who were building a life in the U.S. But in the second Trump administration, this is no lionger the case.

  • Federal Power Grab on Voting Still Flunks Basic Civics Test

    The Framers greatly feared that a president or ruling national faction might someday gain power over the administration of elections. We should be worried, too. There’s nothing wrong with voter ID—most states use it, generally with good results. But the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act and MEGA (Make Elections Great Again) Act have little to do with that issue. They are fueled by alarms about supposedly widespread noncitizen voting and voter impersonation that simply aren’t borne out by the evidence.