From Bruce Cain’s essay, appearing today at the NYU Democracy Project: At Caltech, I was asked to assist a group of distinguished physicists who were evaluating the technical feasibility of President ...

I’ve posted a short Common Ground Democracy essay on the event in Austin over this past weekend at which Joe Manchin, the former Senator from (and governor of) West Virginia, embraced the fundamental ...

From the N.Y. Times Magazine, a long profile of the internal workings of the Justice Department and the complete abandonment of basic rule of law norms, based on interviews with 60 former DOJ ...

In August, Joseph Burns ran an article in City Journal, accusing the Working Families Party of being “the New Boss of New York Politics,” a “modern equivalent of Boss Tweed.” I have read this article ...

A Press Release from Issue One provides evidence from tax filings showing how big pharmaceutical companies, including Eli Lilly, Merck, and Pfizer, use their trade association Pharmaceutical Research ...

Time has a new story on big New York City politics. “In the final stretch of the New York City mayoral campaign, Curtis Sliwa says he was offered $10 million by a group of unnamed billionaires to drop ...

The latest version from Steven Sholk is now available.

We often work and think in silos. Law of democracy scholars assess the state of democracy by considering the fairness of our elections. Traditionally, our focus is on whether voting rules and ...

“In the final stretch of the New York City mayoral campaign, Curtis Sliwa says he was offered $10 million by a group of unnamed billionaires to drop out of the race and clear the way for Andrew ...

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos) 2025 Casebook Supplement (Free) Season 6, ...

Announcement via email on an exciting new tool for election law researchers, election administrators, and others: Election statutes, regulations, and advisory opinions are now available in one place ...

I’m delighted to announce that Rebecca Green of William & Mary Law will be joining ELB as a contributor. She will post on issues and interests from time to time, and she will also take a turn each ...