Comics journalist Josh Neufeld explores the implications of a law that allows patients to see lab results as soon as they're ...

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 ...

The political impasse over certain federal medical insurance subsidies in the U.S. has brought unprecedented challenges for health plans, government officials and millions of consumers. At issue is ...

This collection of research on race-neutral alternatives to affirmative action, originally published in May 2023, has been updated with new research, data and other information. In the two years since ...

Experts in law, education and education journalism share tips to help journalists report on U.S. colleges and universities that serve a disproportionately high percentage of Hispanic students. This ...

News leaders regularly discuss and scrutinize their news agencies’ work to gauge how well it reflects the diversity of the communities they cover. Journalists often are encouraged to seek an array of ...

The federal watchdog for consumer financial products has been stripped of its enforcement capabilities, but the data remains robust.

In two recent high-profile cases, the parents of suspected school shooters have been criminally charged, in part based on allegations that they knew their teenage children were a potential danger to ...

There is a band of water across the equatorial Pacific Ocean, stretching from the coast of South America through to the island nations of Southeast Asia, whose temperature climatologists closely ...

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 ...

On Sept. 28, the White House is hosted a conference on hunger, nutrition and health — the second conference of its kind in five decades — and introduced a 40-page national strategy as a roadmap toward ...

Most U.S. taxpayers interact with the IRS and state tax departments once a year — to file their income taxes. The final amount owed may be seemingly unrelated to the tax filer’s race or ethnicity. Yet ...