Border patrol and immigration enforcement have reportedly used various technologies to monitor the public during recent ...

An earlier version of this article first appeared on Austin Kocher’s Substack. We’ve edited it for style and republished it with permission. Even while staying busy with my own research, I try to read ...

Millions of U.S. college students skip meals and rely on cheap staples such as instant ramen and boxes of macaroni and cheese because they have limited funds for food. A new academic paper estimates ...

In early June, President Donald Trump issued an executive order authorizing the federal deployment of state National Guard troops, asserting protesters in “numerous incidents” were preventing federal ...

Although media portrayals of eating disorders traditionally focus on girls and women, these serious mental health conditions also affect boys and men. For decades, researchers have focused mostly on ...

When states take on debt, it’s usually for large infrastructure projects that may benefit multiple generations — for example, replacing bridges, building hospitals, or expanding highways and transit ...

There are substantial differences in the amount, content and characteristics of research papers that Democratic and Republican congressional committees and right- or left-leaning think tanks cite in ...

Immigration policy remains one of the most contentious, consequential and misunderstood issues in the United States. For journalists, it’s more important than ever to inform immigration stories with ...

Unlocked is a new series focused on explaining U.S. federal government systems, structures, and processes. The series is produced by The Journalist’s Resource and the Shorenstein Center on Media, ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but firms that were created to negotiate better deals for consumers on medicines instead have sometimes driven up the costs of prescriptions — while also putting the ...

Young voters have been a major voting bloc since 1971, when the U.S. lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18. Today, they are one of America’s largest voting blocs — about 50 million people aged ...

Elections in the U.S. are decentralized. Local jurisdictions or states, not the federal government, decide how to run them. There is no single voting method, and decisions on which voting method to ...