Commentary

The FEC’s bipartisan and deliberative structure is critical for an agency that regulates sensitive core First Amendment-protected activities.

In an increasingly connected world, the risk of surveillance stifling speech is higher than ever. Protecting First Amendment rights in the 21st century calls for ...

Can the government ban political speech based on the identity of the speaker, or the mechanism that the speaker uses to communicate to fellow ...

Giving the equivalent of government-funded steroids to campaigns will not create a level playing field. It will just make elections more costly, more ad-driven, ...

The question of what should be regulated as "political" speech may be new to Facebook, but it has vexed campaign finance reformers for decades.

We have never accepted that the government — or our neighbors — have a broad right to know about our political activities.

Running for office and making speeches before one runs for office are core First Amendment rights. The FEC’s “testing the waters” rule unconstitutionally burdens ...

The way to counter corruption and check the influence of entrenched power is not to pry open the donor files of organizations, but to ...

Unfortunately, the first bill proposed in the 2019 Congress will destroy the FEC’s bipartisanship.

Transparency is for government; privacy is for citizens.