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Explore expert analysis on U.S. political institutions, policy issues, and contemporary governance challenges. From Congress, the presidency, and the courts to elections, public opinion, and the state of our democracy, we provide nonpartisan research and bold ideas to improve the democratic process and ensure that the government works for all Americans.

Associate Justice Samuel Alito poses during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2021.

Courts & Law The Alitos’ flag flying and the limits of regulating the Supreme Court

Russell Wheeler

June 20, 2024

FILE PHOTO: Marine Le Pen, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group, and Jordan Bardella, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party and head of the RN list for the European elections, attend a political rally during the party's campaign for the EU elections, in Paris, France, June 2, 2024. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo

Foreign Politics & Elections Did the EU voting provide any clues for the coming U.S. election?

E.J. Dionne, Jr., William A. Galston

June 18, 2024

Crime, Justice & Safety What Trump’s conviction means for democracy

Norman Eisen

June 14, 2024

Troops from the U.S. 31st Fighter Wing based at Aviano Air Base in Italy raise their flag during the opening ceremony of bilateral one-week training exercises with Romanian pilots "Dacian Viper 2014" at a military airfield in Campia Turzii in Transylvania, northwest from Romania's northern border with Ukraine, April 10, 2014. U.S and Romanian pilots of fighter jets began one-week military exercises in Romania as scheduled in operations planned before the Russian annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, officials said on Thursday.

U.S. Defense Policy ‘Privatization’ of non-inherently governmental functions: Why public-private partnerships are so effective—and so rare—in the federal government

Dorothy Robyn

June 13, 2024

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