Two legal scholars explain why the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in a case centering on mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day preserves the court’s ability to come to different conclusions on ...

Two legal scholars explain why the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in a case centering on mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day preserves the court’s ability to come to different conclusions on ...

Two legal experts explain why the Supreme Court's ruling preserves the court’s ability to come to different conclusions on other voting laws.

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 ...

An estimated 800,000 government employees have been affected by the partial government shutdown in the United States, which started on December 22, 2018. Roughly 380,000 federal workers have been ...

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 ...

“For over 20 years, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been treated to luxury vacations by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. He goes on cruises in far-flung locales on Crow’s yacht, ...

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 ...

With rising rents and financial strife from the COVID-19 pandemic rippling through U.S. cities, some municipalities are turning to rent regulation as a policy to help tenants stay in their homes.

Each month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Employment Situation report. This report includes about two dozen distinct datasets that can help economists, journalists and the public ...

Tribal sovereignty, often viewed as a legal term, sits at the center of almost every issue affecting tribal nations existing within the United States’ geographical borders. In its most basic sense, ...

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 ...