To help news outlets avoid biased coverage leading up to Election Day, we look at recent research on gender bias in political ...

Bad weather discourages Election Day voting. Research suggests mail ballots and other alternative voting methods can reduce ...

Thomas Patterson's assessment of 2024 presidential election coverage so far: too few issues, and too many polls and overblown ...

For several years, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted routine childhood vaccinations across the U.S., reducing the number of children entering kindergarten vaccinated against serious, highly contagious ...

Media scholar Thomas Patterson’s assessment of 2024 U.S. presidential election news coverage reminds him of years past: too few stories focusing on policy issues, and too many focusing on polls and ...

To help news outlets avoid biased coverage in the weeks before Election Day, we’re taking a close look at five recent studies assessing the state of gender bias in U.S. political reporting.

In this research-based tipsheet, we cover what journalists should know about the history of electoral violence in the U.S., whether Americans think political violence is justified and how election ...

The “costs” of the post-9/11 conflicts can vary according to the research organization doing the estimates and depend on the particular focus and units of measurement. A March 2013 paper from Harvard ...

2014 study by American University and Columbia on the factors influencing public opinion on research, including partisanship, ideology, education and attitudes toward science. The study found that ...