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

The U.S. central banking system, the Federal Reserve, is a data-heavy organization. Economists at the bank regularly crunch numbers to inform national decisions, such as setting target interest rates.

Since January 20, the Trump administration has aggressively — yet quietly — expanded a controversial program that delegates immigration enforcement powers to state and local law enforcement agencies ...

Know Your ResearchTip sheets and explainers to help journalists understand academic research methods, find and recognize high-quality research, investigate scientific misconduct and research errors, ...

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, ...

The number of people held in immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement essentially flatlined this month. The total detained population—counted as beds occupied at midnight on a ...

“In the span of about two months, the Trump administration radically expanded the 287(g) program beyond anything I have seen in the past 15 years of close study of this precise policy,” writes ...

We updated this explainer April 18 with new data on the percentage of non-Hispanic Black, Asian and white undergraduate students who attend Hispanic-serving institutions. As America’s Hispanic ...

Rising seas are one of the central impacts of global warming, and they’re not some abstract challenge for a future day: Areas of the United States now routinely have “sunny-day flooding,” with salt ...

In a field experiment involving more than 400 fictitious LinkedIn profiles, researchers find connection requests sent from Black men’s profiles were 13% less likely to be accepted than those from ...