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

Dr. Alister Martin’s first encounter with voter registration in a health care setting happened in 2017, when he was a third-year emergency medicine resident at Boston Children’s Hospital. A patient ...

Update: As reported by Matt Zdun of The Houston Chronicle on Feb. 3, 2025, the TRAC website is no longer available on the Syracuse University website. The immigration databases have been moved to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.