Federal intervention, underserved voters, AI, how to approach voters at the polls and more from our webinar on covering the U ...

Solitary confinement is the practice of keeping a prisoner alone in a cell about the size of a parking space, with minimal human contact and limited access to the outdoors. Corrections officers and ...

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 ...

Election Day has arrived, but the work of journalists covering the 2024 U.S. election is not over. Reporting on election night results may be the most pivotal task of the entire campaign season. This ...

Newsroom leaders have heralded artificial intelligence tools as having the potential to remake journalism — for example, by allowing journalists to spend less time on mundane tasks, such as scouring ...

Nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. received $37.4 billion in tax benefits in 2021, more than half of which came from state and local tax exemptions, according to a recent study published in JAMA.

Former Congressman Tip O’Neill famously said “all politics is local.” The same applies to election administration in the U.S., which is markedly decentralized. On Election Day, county- and city-level ...

This research roundup, originally published in May 2019, has been updated to include a recent systematic review and meta-analysis looking at the effects of screen time on academic performance. Gone ...

In the mid-1990s, Arizona State University political scientist Kim Fridkin dubbed U.S. press coverage of male and female candidates vying for state office a “distorted mirror” marked by gender bias ...

Institutional investors entered the single-family home rental market en masse following the Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009. Subprime mortgage foreclosures during the late-2000s ...

This article about red flag laws, originally published on Aug. 13, 2019, was updated on Nov. 30, 2022 to reflect recent policy changes and new research findings. Five people were killed and 18 were ...

If you report on colleges and universities in the U.S., you need at least a basic understanding of where they get their money and how they use it. Higher education funding is complicated, in part ...