Every four years, Congress gathers to count electoral votes and certify a winner of the presidential election. That process is usually uneventful. ...

Surprise medical bills arise when a consumer covered by a health plan is unexpectedly treated by an out-of-network provider and is required to pay ...

This book discusses how the COVID–19 pandemic is exacerbating racial inequalities in education, labor, and health and the steps needed to address t...

In 2021, motor vehicle crashes killed an estimated 42,915 people in the United States. The number of fatal traffic crashes represents only a fracti...

Law enforcement and communities are continuing to work diligently to reduce crime, but unfortunately, despite these efforts, violent crimes remain ...

The Capitol Police is responsible for protecting the Congress, its members, staff, visitors, and facilities. The U.S. Capitol Police’s (Capitol Pol...

Sanctions are a central element of U.S. policy to counter and deter malign Russian behavior. The United States has imposed sanctions on Russia main...

In 2020, 100,000 of the quarter million women and girls who went missing in the U.S. were black, brown, or indigenous. Black women and girls make u...

In one brilliant volume, David Ewen offers a classic in musical literature. Here are the treasured semi-classical works of two continents—enduring,...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, immediately stripping women of their constitutional right to abortion. The devastating ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on the 1.4 million elderly or disabled residents in the nation’s more than 15,000 Medicare-...

Disinformation is shared with the deliberate intent to deceive. Disinformation represents an intentional effort to shape or distort public percepti...

Should the United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States and one of the most powerful judicial bodies in the world, abide by ...

In 2009, the Department of Veterans Affairs committed to ending veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. Significant steps have been taken to get o...

On January 6, 2021, the world witnessed a violent and unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Vice President, Members of Congress, and the de...

Wildfires have been growing in size, duration, and destructivity over the past 20 years. Growing wildfire risk is due to accumulating fuels, a warm...

The United States is experiencing an ongoing wildfire crisis. Fires, including some of the largest wildfires in the history of the United States, h...

Today, millions of youth across the country do not have access to a stable home. For many of them, the effects of homelessness are not isolated to ...