Commentary

Facebook’s lobbyists recently teamed up with Maryland legislators to craft what they call a “national model” for regulating ads on social media. The resulting ...

Incumbent politicians have a lot of advantages in campaigns. They have a network of donors to call on for support. They have an in ...

What sets Pennsylvania apart from its Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic neighbors? Freedom of speech in the political process, for one. Imagine you lived in a ...

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously referred to the states as “laboratories of democracy.” States, Brandeis believed, could test out solutions to problems. Some ...

Imagine you lived in a state where it was illegal to express too much support for a candidate. Such a law would be a ...

A landmark Supreme Court decision marked its 40th birthday late last month. It’s worth celebrating. The case, known as First National Bank of Boston ...

More than a thousand students gathered at the Maryland state capitol in March as part of the national “March for Our Lives” demonstrations against ...

Raising money is nobody’s favorite part of campaigns, but everyone knows it has to be done. In order for voters to have a choice ...

Just over a year ago, after the Trump administration gave the green light to move forward with construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, an ...

Imagine if liberal groups discovered that President Trump’s Internal Revenue Service was targeting them for heightened scrutiny or harassment. The media and Democrats would ...