The agency issued a memo last week laying out several grantmaking changes, including a new office for metascience.

Never before has the Census Bureau studied the eligibility of individual American voters in a specific election. Never before has the Census Bureau investigated alleged voting crimes. Never before has...

Author: Amy O’Hara,  Director of the Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University Rigorous scientific research into voting in U.S. elections consistently finds ...

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The House has passed a bill that would bar the use of merchant codes specifically for firearm retailers, an effort to pre-empt state adoption of the tool.

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A provision in the Iowa state budget will require all students at the University of Iowa to complete two classes at the Center for Intellectual Freedom to get their degree.

The Office of Management and Budget published long-expected proposed rules for how federal agencies must carry out Trump’s order to put “senior appointees” in charge of deciding who gets funded. The p...

It would be hard not to notice that we are living in a world of increasing inequality. According to data collected by the Federal Reserve , the share of the nation’s wealth owned by the top one…

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The Center Street Neighborhood — a tight-knit, predominantly Black community — was destroyed by highway construction and city urban renewal projects. Our sense of community is tied to economic opportu...

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.