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Both-siding happens because we think we’re being fair and intellectually curious and encouraging “diversity of perspectives,” etc. But many perspectives are awful and should never get any exposure. This is…

Nearly 5,000 transgender people are incarcerated in state prisons, but we know very little about their lives before prison or their experiences during incarceration. To add to this limited body of…

Mental health challenges, economic insecurity, and parental abuse became a routine part of life for a staggering share of high school students during the pandemic, data released Thursday by the…

Once a year, since March 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis releases its data series on the distribution of growth in personal income with updated annual data from…

About half of Montana schools that had tested their water by mid-February under a new state rule had high levels of lead, according to state data. But the full picture…

Three years ago, Jorge Palacios, David Roper and Josh Placeres came together with a shared vision to make a better world for communities of color in Miami. They wanted to…

Justice is supposed to be “blind.” But is race blindness always the best way to achieve racial equality? An algorithm to predict recidivism among prison populations is underscoring that debate.…

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The total treatment costs for American Indian and Alaska Native older adults with dementia are US$2,943…

When it comes to conversations about community investing, plans are often described by silos of work: housing or economic development, education or safety, health or jobs. Certainly, the specifics of…

Combatting the climate crisis is going to require rethinking how Americans move: ​Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation account for about 29 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. “Global warming has made…