Border patrol and immigration enforcement have reportedly used various technologies to monitor the public during recent ...

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.

An immigration scholar guides us through the process of analyzing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest data, based on datasets published by the Data Deportation Project. Sign up. It’s ...

Researchers examined more than 200 federal datasets and found that nearly half of them were altered between January and March. In most, the term “gender” was replaced with “sex.” Sign up. It’s free!If ...

In January 2001, the office of the U.S. Surgeon General issued a report about mental health disparities affecting racial and ethnic minorities. “Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity” was a ...

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 ...

Industry groups for years have warned of a workforce shortage in trucking, particularly for long-haul truckers who pick up and deliver across state lines. In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...

In June 2023, Nevada legislators approved $380 million in public funding for a 30,000-seat ballpark for the Oakland A’s, who are expected to throw their first pitch in Las Vegas in 2028 after Major ...

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 ...

Migrants often face a variety of health challenges in their host countries, depending on the circumstances of their migration and a host of obstacles such as language barriers, lack of knowledge about ...

An earlier version of this article first appeared on Austin Kocher’s Substack. We’ve edited it for style and republished it with permission. Even while staying busy with my own research, I try to read ...

Each year, thousands of people die trying to cross roads in the U.S., making pedestrian safety a perpetual policy issue in cities and towns of all sizes. That’s why local news outlets pay close ...