It’s not just outside data advocates who are warning that proposed changes to the 2030 census by the Trump administration will degrade the nation’s data.

It can’t feel good getting dinged twice within a few days by your own watchdog agency.

The administration’s proposed changes to the 2030 census will harm states and cities. Here is how they can fight back.

Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...

In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...

SOME SPARTANBURG, SOUTH Carolina residents were confused by the U.S.

U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore became the first of her colleagues to visit a Kansas ICE facility where two Milwaukee women are held.

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The speculation is over.

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

The New York of today is a different city than the New York of 9/11.

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THE TENTACLES OF the Trump administration are reaching into so many aspects of the operations of the typically independent and nonpartisan U.S.

A NOW-BANNED privacy protection method was too fuzzy for people who aren’t statistical experts to grasp, which led the Trump administration to order statistical agencies to stop using it, according to...

A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.

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WHAT’S AMAZING ABOUT the Commerce Department’s recent decision to restrict the types of privacy protections statistical agencies can use is how little consideration there was to its real-world impacts...

Historians call it "the usable past." 1 The paper will discuss: a) who writes census history and why, b) will illustrate where it is disseminated (kep

This book, The United States Census During World War II, reveals how officials stepped beyond their normal roles as unobtrusive monitors.

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The sudden increase in public, visible arrests by ICE, often using SUVs blocking traffic on major roads, diverges from how the agency had been operating.

A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.