Brand owners have been sounding the alarm about dangerous counterfeit products plaguing the internet for years. As consumers have moved online, cou...

The U.S. government supports a broad range of scientific and engineering research and development (R&D). Its purposes include addressing nation...

Medical debt is the most common collection tradeline reported on consumer credit records. People also report being contacted by debt collectors abo...

In the two-plus decades since the creation of the internet, we have seen life for Americans and their families transformed in many positive ways. T...

As viruses spread, small errors - called mutations - arise in the genetic material during replication. Many of these mutations are repaired or die ...

Pedestrians, bicyclists, and other non-motorist road users account for a growing share of all U.S. traffic fatalities. Pedestrian and bicycle safet...

This book looks at the threat to abortion rights and access in the United States. It examines attempts by state governments to restrict access to a...

Automated vehicles (AVs), including automated trucks and buses, are vehicles in which the safety-critical control functions (e.g., steering, accele...

On any given night hundreds of thousands of Americans are without a home, and millions more live in fear that their family may end up homeless in t...

Over 450,000 Americans have died due to COVID-19 and the deaths continue to climb. We need to be making continuous improvements that will stop this...

Few places have felt the devastating effects of the Coronavirus more deeply than America’s nursing homes. More than 200,000 Americans living in nur...

Vaccines protect people from disease by preparing the body to respond to an infection. Vaccinations are a key part of individual and community heal...

The existing credit reporting system does not work for consumers. Too frequently, consumers struggle to access their credit reports, and when they ...

The federal government has a unique duty to Indian Tribes to assist in the protection of the health and welfare of Native American people and child...

In the United States, domestic violence, including intimate partner violence and child abuse, are significant problems that cause immense harm in o...

Facial recognition—a type of biometric technology—mimics how people identify or verify others by examining their faces. Recent advancements have in...

Net neutrality prevents cable companies from filtering internet content without a court order and fosters freedom of speech. It is one of the most ...

Chapter 1 reports on freedom of expression and China’s pervasive and unrelenting efforts to stifle speech at home and now increasingly abroad. Chap...