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FILE PHOTO: A SafeVote official ballot drop box for mail-in ballots is seen outside a polling site at the Milwaukee Public Library’s Washington Park location in Milwaukee, on the first day of in-person voting in Wisconsin, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo

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Misinformation is eroding the public’s confidence in democracy

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Keesha Middlemass, and Aila Rodriguez

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Seen behind weeping figures of the Peace Monument, flags are flown at halfstaff on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2022, the one year anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol building (Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

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Trump is not the only threat to democracy

Darrell M. West

Monday, July 25, 2022

Video of former President Donald J. Trump plays on the screen during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol hearing happening in the 390 Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC on June 16, 2022. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

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Should Donald Trump be prosecuted?

Elaine Kamarck

Friday, July 22, 2022

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FILE PHOTO: Chairperson U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) speaks as members of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol listen before a vote to approve a report recommending the U.S. House of Representatives cite Jeffrey Clark for criminal contempt of Congress during a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

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What can we expect from the January 6 committee hearings?

Norman Eisen and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Committee Chairman U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) leads the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol as they meet to decide whether to recommend the U.S. House to cite Trump administration officials Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino for criminal contempt of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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What’s new in the January 6 investigation?

Quinta Jurecic and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, March 31, 2022

PA via ReutersLuke Jerram's artwork Gaia, a replica of planet earth created using detailed NASA imagery of the Earth's surface, goes on display in the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, as part of the 2020 Greenwich+Docklands International Festival. Picture date: Friday August 28, 2020. Photo credit should read: Matt Crossick/EmpicsNo Use UK. No Use Ireland. No Use Belgium. No Use France. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use China. No Use Norway. No Use Sweden. No Use Denmark. No Use Holland

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Brookings President John R. Allen on Russia, Ukraine, China, and leading the Institution forward

John R. Allen and Fred Dews

Friday, March 25, 2022

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Lessons learned from the post-George Floyd protests

Dana R. Fisher

Friday, July 22, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the media as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S. July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Press “bothsideism” has failed Biden, and America

Marvin Kalb

Thursday, July 21, 2022

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

What Americans still want from government reform—a midsummer update

Paul C. Light

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Workers install razor wire atop the unscalable fence surrounding the U.S. Capitol in the wake of the January 6th riot and ahead of the upcoming inauguration in Washington, U.S. January 14, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A Republican more capable than Trump could ‘pull a Putin’ in the US

John Haltiwanger and Fiona Hill

Friday, July 15, 2022

Some people have said that might have been our last fair election in 2020. And it's disastrous because that means that a portion of the population will always believe that whoever got elected is illegitimate.

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Vice President and Director - Governance Studies

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Senior Fellow - Governance Studies - The Brookings Institution