As protesters gathered earlier this year in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities in opposition to federal immigration policy, news organizations like 404 Media revealed the tools and tactics that federal ...

An earlier version of this article first appeared on Austin Kocher’s Substack. We’ve edited it for style and republished it with permission. Even while staying busy with my own research, I try to read ...

Whether it’s on TV commercials or posts by social media influencers, dietary supplements are marketed as a daily need to maintain optimal health, or as a quick fix for a range of ailments and ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 12, we published a methods paper and a corresponding blog post that introduced a new way to calculate recent detained population numbers at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention ...

If you report on colleges and universities in the U.S., you need at least a basic understanding of where they get their money and how they use it. Higher education funding is complicated, in part ...

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.

Immigration policy remains one of the most contentious, consequential and misunderstood issues in the United States. For journalists, it’s more important than ever to inform immigration stories with ...

This piece was update on March 5, 2025, with information on the newly proposed “gold card” visa. Among the more than 50 executive orders President Donald Trump signed during the first three weeks of ...

From the Federal Reserve to the Bureau of Economic Analysis to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are a variety of free federal sources journalists can turn to for high-quality data on the U.S.