Righting the Voting Income Gap
The “motor voter” law, an almost decade-old federal effort to encourage voter registration among Americans receiving public assistance, is bearing fruit.
The “motor voter” law, an almost decade-old federal effort to encourage voter registration among Americans receiving public assistance, is bearing fruit.
It's business as usual for many police agencies, even after bungled eyewitness procedures led to high-profile exonerations.
The health effects from wind turbine noise tell us interesting things about the way we hear things.
The quicker, easier solution isn't always the wisest choice when it comes to many things in life, including heart disease.
Developers are looking into mining waste heaps as a home for solar panels and windmills.
As election systems technology in America is getting more advanced, is the real world catching up to the laboratory?
Researchers use statistical regression analysis to spot discrimination in an unexpected profession.
For heart attack patients, a stent is the medical device that provides the best chance of recovery. But studies comparing the use of stents to medical therapy alone have sparked controversy.
Researchers at Seton Hall and New America Foundation track the Pentagon's claims that released Guantanamo detainees 'returned to battle.'
The fight over a public option means nil to the majority of Americans — who won't have the option to buy it anyway.
In a follow-up to a story we published in March, our featured homeowner still lives defiantly without payments or eviction for more than a year.
Health insurance watchdogs in Oregon say the way regulators and the industry have analyzed administrative costs for decades are wrong. Will Obama and Congress listen?
As health care reform swirls around who pays and not what they pay, health insurers point fingers at medical providers for charging exorbitant prices that few know are negotiable.
Two prominent doctors in the field of pain management reflect on the malign influence of celebrity.
As it attempts to balance controlling costs and providing health care while not stepping on entrepreneurship, will Congress take on self-referring doctors?
The Department of Energy plans to take up to 3,500 people this year through the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Statistical progression suggests the Ahmadinejad landslide was unlikely, although his win was predictable. In other words, while the election may have been rigged, it wasn't stolen.
The media may seem obsessed with Twitter because the people who are the media are obsessed with Twitter.
Two studies, one in Chicago and the other in Seattle, prove we can save health care dollars by housing and helping the homeless.
Thousands of Americans are defying eviction notices and exercising civil disobedience.
Facing a technological arms race over billing, doctors score a win over insurers but are nowhere close to even par.
In a nondescript industrial park near Portland, Ore., lies a solar gem that just might save the American Dream.
Five ways to safeguard voting rights and how close Senate races could save the election reform movement.
As Election Day approaches, citizen activists are gearing up to conduct their very own exit poll.
Republicans in at least 10 swing states have cited problems with new voter registrations — including some clearly spurious applications submitted across the nation — creating the possibility of widespread voter fraud.
With fewer than two weeks before Election Day, lawyers for both parties are in the courtroom sparring over voting rights.
Secretive, error-riddled methods for cleaning up the voter rolls and how the Help America Vote Act isn't helping.
Short on detail or just plain wrong, mailings with GOP return addresses are sowing confusion on voting status with fewer than two months before the big day.
A change in the law may be needed to protect Ohioans from voter caging.
Ohio directive issued Friday says 60-day notice can't be used to challenge voters.
Research shows how poll workers on the front lines of elections affect voter confidence.
A leading voting machine maker says software used in 34 states has been losing votes.
Nonprofit group claims vote-counting machine vendors are the ones in control during some elections.
Advocacy groups are battling New Mexico's strict voter registration laws as election looms.
The methods are far less conspicuous than fire hoses and more legally ambiguous than poll taxes and literacy tests.
Based on scientific research, we have a clearer picture of just how vulnerable our American voting system really is.
"Experiments" in eight states provide pointers on how America might provide guaranteed health insurance.
New York's attorney general investigates possible fraud in an industry built on denying care, and two U.S. representatives want Medicare to have no part in it.