The U.S. hasn’t signed the world’s foremost women’s rights treaty. Activists have gotten local versions passed instead. Heidi Haddad - March 7, 2020 These aren’t just symbolic laws. They affect women’s lives.
A silent pension crisis is eating away local government services. Here’s what you need to know. Sarah Anzia - August 4, 2019 State and local governments are cutting police, firefighters and other staff to pay their retirees.
Conservatives say Google and Facebook are censoring them. Here’s the real background. Shannon C. McGregor and Daniel Kreiss - July 31, 2019 The social media giants say they don’t want to regulate political speech. But they already are.
New research shows just how badly a citizenship question would hurt the 2020 Census Rebecca Goldstein, Maya Sen, Matt Barreto, Matthew A. Baum, Chris Warshaw, and Bryce J. Dietrich - April 21, 2019 It could lead to a huge undercount, particularly of Latinos and immigrants
The 2019 Women’s March was bigger than you think Jeremy Pressman and Erica Chenoweth - February 1, 2019 After two years of counting political crowds in the United
Why Republicans don’t push back on Trump’s China tariffs — in one map John Kuk, Deborah Seligsohn, and Jiakun Zhang - August 7, 2018 On Friday, Beijing announced new tariffs on $60 billion in
Sanctuary cities do not experience an increase in crime Loren Collingwood and Benjamin Gonzalez-O'Brien - October 3, 2016 [caption id="attachment_28863" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] Immigration reform activists hold a sign
Where does America's low voter turnout matter the most? In local elections John Sides - March 24, 2015 [caption id="attachment_17379" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] (Harry Cabluck/AP Photo)[/caption] There is a
Where does America’s low voter turnout matter the most? In local elections Zoltan L. Hajnal - March 24, 2015 [caption id="attachment_17379" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] (Harry Cabluck/AP Photo)[/caption] There is a