Innovation must come with transparency, safeguards and human oversight. We need to deploy the technology in ways that enhance ...

Jesse Rothman is a senior fellow at the Council for Criminal Justice. He can be reached at [email protected].

The new law will guarantee small business employees 40 hours of paid sick leave and 56 hours per year for people working at businesses with more than 20 employees. But business owners are concerned ...

A multifront effort to restore passenger rail service between Scranton, Pa., and New York City is losing some of its chief advocates in Washington, D.C., but officials pointing to projected economic ...

Nearly 80 Michigan municipalities have challenged the legality of the state’s processing of permitting requests for large-scale solar and wind energy facilities — a controversial policy passed by ...

A new report from Brookings shows how state departments of transportation have a free hand to spend on highway projects, but ...

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More than half of California renters spend at least 30 percent of their income on housing, making it the fifth-highest rate in the country. But a measure that would have lifted restrictions on local ...

His second presidency could recolor the landscape for federal spending, with ramifications for states, local governments, schools and public pensions. Governors and mayors will need to try to discern ...

The increase of energy demand across the country is growing to rates that haven’t been seen since the end of World War II.

Police officers monitor the East High School campus in Denver. The district's board had voted in 2020 to remove them from campus, but they were reinstated in April 2023 after a shooting at the school.

A new Brookings analysis of counties' 2024 presidential vote shows that lower-output, small town, and rural areas still comprise the foundation of the GOP base. But they've been joined by numerous new ...