Executive Summary For years, the headline economic data describing workers’ well-being have been weak: over the year ending in August, the most recent

Child care is vital for families to live healthy and happy lives. Increasingly, however, the high cost of child care means that families are forgoing

They should ask the question Reagan asked at the end of his debate against Jimmy Carter: ‘Are you better off now than you were before this presidency?’

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

197 election deniers are running for Congress or statewide office in 43 states. Many of them are seeking roles that would put them in charge of voting for the 2028 presidential election.

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

A rise in home equity to record levels has led many Americans to refinance their mortgages to pay their bills.

We all need time to care, but the rising costs of essentials mean that taking time away from work is out of reach for too many workers. For millions of Americans, paid family leave means being able to...

While President Trump promised Americans that he would stop inflation and lower gas prices, hardworking families have instead had to spend an additional $4,200 on goods and services since the Presiden...

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding...

John Whitehead says the Christian legal movement is not what he envisioned when he launched the Rutherford Institute in 1982.

The architects of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, released a new report earlier this year: “Saving America by Saving the Family.” As with Project 2025, this report envisions a world in which wo...

The shocking vilification of Muslims is one of the most troubling storylines of the midterms.

The Trump administration says reducing Head Start standards will save money. Critics say it could lead to 40K job cuts and decreased quality of care.

All their effort at a gender vibe shift is in service of a plan that is failing on its own terms.

From MAGA to MAHA, commentators sought to explain the complex tragedy with simple ideologies.

An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.

We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.

News that the national debt has reached $40 trillion inspired lots of partisan hand-wringing — and even more misunderstanding.

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

The trend is not surprising. States are responding to lax enforcement of child labor laws under the Trump administration.

Disabled women are doing more with less: they are typically paid 56 cents for every dollar paid to nondisabled men.

Care is more than compassion—it’s democratic infrastructure. Caregiving, connection and stability can become powerful forms of resistance.

A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with w...

Project 2025 Goes Global, examines how the far-right governing blueprint is reshaping U.S. policy and spreading internationally through alliances, advocacy networks, and governments advancing anti-rig...

The Child Care and Development Fund, the U.S. government's main source of funding to help low-income families pay for childcare, serves over 1.6 million children in a typical month.

New CAP analysis reveals the Trump administration’s costly National Guard deployments have failed to reduce violent crime despite its claims of success.

U.S. Department Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr. is attacking Head Start, proposing to eliminate most of the program's standards and rolling back regulatory rules. If enacte...

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

Six miles from Mar-a-Lago, Guatemalan families are being ripped apart. Kids are left to fend for themselves as ICE detains their parents.