In January 2022, the Levin Center will release over a dozen Portraits in Oversight, profiles that describe important congressional investigations and trace the work of key figures in the history of legislative oversight. The Portraits explore congressional oversight from 1792 to the present day, including inquiries into the Civil War, covert CIA operations, Enron, and Watergate and such figures as Representatives John Dingell and Elijah Cummings and Senators Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy. Our panel of historians will explore the role of congressional oversight in our history and how these investigations influenced our understanding of the American story. RSVP HERE…

On January 13, 2022, the Levin Center released its “Portraits in Oversight” – short profiles that describe important congressional investigations and trace the work of key figures in the history of legislative oversight. The portraits explore congressional oversight from 1792 to the present day, including inquiries into the Civil War, covert CIA operations, Enron, and Watergate and such figures as Senators Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy, and Representative John Dingell. As part of Wayne State University’s Black History Month, we are delighted to invite you to our panel discussion on Representative Elijah Cummings’ Portrait in Oversight. For 23 years, Elijah…

Properly administered election audits are one of the most important tools states can use to improve voter confidence and election security. In 2020, however, state legislatures in multiple states used audits for the opposite goal of undermining the public's faith in elections and the electoral results themselves. Join us on April 14, as representatives from the Brennan Center for Justice and the R Street Institute discuss the audits that followed the last election cycle and explore options to strengthen oversight of our elections going forward. This virtual panel discussion is hosted by Wayne Law's Voting Rights and Election Law Society and the…

For our democratic system to work, public and private institutions, public officials, and citizens need to value facts and truthfulness. But recent years have witnessed mass disagreements over what is true and how to separate fact from fiction. Join our discussion ‘Pursuing Factual Consensus: What Does "Truth" Mean in the Public Square?’ to delve more deeply into how facts become established in the public mind and how truthfulness might be restored to our public discourse. RSVP HERE   Moderator: Jim Townsend - Director, Levin Center Panelists:   Jonathan Rauch Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution       Marc Hetherington Professor of…

For our democratic system to work, our leaders, institutions (both public and private), and citizens need to value facts and truthfulness.  In recent years, however, we have witnessed mass disagreements over what is true and how to separate fact from fiction. We’ve also learned the consequences can be deadly.  The Levin Center is sponsoring a three-part series of panels to delve more deeply into how facts become established in the public mind and how truthfulness might be restored to our public discourse. Our first panel, on May 19th, “Pursuing Factual Consensus: What Does ’Truth’ Mean in the Public Square?” heard from…