Here's how ACA marketplaces work, why enrollment has grown recently and what's at the heart of the US government shutdown.

Three data experts explain the critical consequences of the manipulation and removal of federal data in recent months.

When states take on debt, it’s usually for large infrastructure projects that may benefit multiple generations — for example, replacing bridges, building hospitals, or expanding highways and transit ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to influence U.S. medical practice have drawn new attention to the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Little known by the public, the USPSTF plays an ...

There are substantial differences in the amount, content and characteristics of research papers that Democratic and Republican congressional committees and right- or left-leaning think tanks cite in ...

About 40% of all undergraduate students in the U.S. attend community colleges, which typically offer the courses students need to complete either an associate degree or the first half of a bachelor’s ...

An earlier version of this post about ICE arrest data first appeared on Austin Kocher’s Substack page. We’ve lightly edited it for style and republished it here with his permission. Which numbers are ...

The Minneapolis-based KARE 11 team’s months-long investigation into allegations of Medicaid fraud at several addiction recovery centers in Minnesota began with a tip, as many investigative stories do.

Newsroom leaders have heralded artificial intelligence tools as having the potential to remake journalism — for example, by allowing journalists to spend less time on mundane tasks, such as scouring ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but firms that were created to negotiate better deals for consumers on medicines instead have sometimes driven up the costs of prescriptions — while also putting the ...

Young voters have been a major voting bloc since 1971, when the U.S. lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18. Today, they are one of America’s largest voting blocs — about 50 million people aged ...

Dr. Alister Martin’s first encounter with voter registration in a health care setting happened in 2017, when he was a third-year emergency medicine resident at Boston Children’s Hospital. A patient ...