As a major federal agency reportedly moves away from monetizing the health benefits of regulations, the economist who ...

The ninth annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report warns of accelerating health threats, from heat deaths to wildfire smoke, and highlights policy backsliding, including U.S.

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 ...

About 40% of all undergraduate students in the U.S. attend community colleges, which typically offer the courses students need to complete either an associate degree or the first half of a bachelor’s ...

An earlier version of this post about ICE arrest data first appeared on Austin Kocher’s Substack page. We’ve lightly edited it for style and republished it here with his permission. Which numbers are ...

Unlocked is a new series focused on explaining U.S. federal government systems, structures, and processes. This SNAP explainer is part of that series, which is produced by The Journalist’s Resource ...

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 ...

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 ...