How do you protect a right that was never designed for everyone? For Hannah Fried, this isn’t abstract. It’s the daily work of making sure ordinary people can do an extraordinary thing: cast a ballot ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed significant gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure at the local, state, and federal levels. In particular, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

On Monday, the Pulitzer Prizes recognized some of the best journalism by American news outlets, including brilliant examples of local reporting. Good news first: Americans (still) believe local news ...