Background

Columbus Day overlooks – even endorses – painful history, ignores the trauma still present in Native communities, and minimizes the important contributions made by indigenous peoples throughout this continent’s history.

United States security cooperation, also known as security assistance or building partner capacity, is a large and growing tool in the Obama administration’s foreign policy toolbox.

Here are six steps the federal government could take to restore trust in the political process. Please encourage your members of Congress and the Administration to support them.

The Supreme Court decisions in Federal Election Commission v. Citizens United and McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission have allowed big money to flood into elections. We may never know the full impact of these large and concentrated contributions on electoral outcomes.

The federal budget determines when and how the government spends your tax dollars. Here’s what you need to know.

Preventing genocide and mass atrocities is a core national security interest of the United States. Right now, over 60 million people have been displaced by conflict worldwide – a number even higher than during World War II. This has required growing expenditures to support life-saving humanitarian assistance and has led to other cost-intensive interventions.

Respect for human and civil rights in border enforcement policies is essential to safeguarding the integrity of our society, yet current enforcement practices are devastating our border communities, contributing to the deaths of thousands of migrants traveling in remote desert regions, and violating the rights of U.S. citizens and migrants alike.

Plans to address poverty often to include a plan to combine core safety net programs into a grant given to the states. Called “merged funding streams” or “block grants,” these are bad policies. Evidence shows they leave the most vulnerable people in the most dire straits.

There is broad, interfaith support for a world free of nuclear weapons.

Researchers from some of the United States’ top legal programs have published in-depth analyses of the legal, strategic and ethical dimensions of the U.S. drones program. Their works help to provide facts and support for FCNL’s principled call to end the problematic use of armed drones around the world. Here is what they found