New studies find student performance fell across southern California and a large Florida county amid the surge in immigration ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Minneapolis-based KARE 11 team’s months-long investigation into allegations of Medicaid fraud at several addiction recovery centers in Minnesota began with a tip, as many investigative stories do.

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 ...

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 ...

Inclement weather discourages voting on Election Day in the U.S., especially among young adults, people who don’t vote regularly and voters who tend to support Democrats, decades of academic research ...

Journalists can’t report accurately on research involving human subjects without knowing certain details about the sample of people researchers studied. It’s important to know, for example, whether ...

Over the past two years dozens of newsrooms around the world have crafted policies and guidelines on how their editorial staff can or should — or cannot or should not — use artificial intelligence ...