President Trump has deployed or threatened to deploy the National Guard to U.S. cities. Learn the history and legal authorities of these troops.

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The Journalist’s Resource and The Marshall Project recently hosted a webinar on staffing shortages and extreme heat in prisons. Here are 4 takeaways that can inform your coverage — plus, watch the ...

2014 study from Princeton University and the World Bank showing how rising inequality was linked with increased rates of violent crime in Mexico. The study’s authors — Ted Enamorado of Princeton ...

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An immense number of U.S. government agencies play a central role in the collection of a wide array of public data — vital statistics on health, transportation, commerce, finance, agriculture, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each year, thousands of people die trying to cross roads in the U.S., making pedestrian safety a perpetual policy issue in cities and towns of all sizes. That’s why local news outlets pay close ...

Over the past two years dozens of newsrooms around the world have crafted policies and guidelines on how their editorial staff can or should — or cannot or should not — use artificial intelligence ...