Formerly incarcerated women have expertise that is policy-ready. We need to mandate including them on the bodies that shape jails, prisons, parole, sentencing and reentry.

This long-depressed city has overcome some of its most serious problems. Maybe others can accomplish the same thing.

An Indiana district is experimenting with small, flexible learning environments to counter declining enrollment.

The U.S. homeland is out of range of military strikes, but state and local governments could see cyber attacks, cloud service disruptions and rising supply costs.

Between 2023 and 2025, the city cleared encampments and quickly built new shelters. It reduced the unsheltered homeless ...

Researchers need access to agency data, but it can be difficult or impossible to come by. You can’t solve a problem you can’t ...

With local governments facing persistent budget pressures, public-private partnerships can help deliver critical services, ...

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the ...

One exception has been in the Northeast. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are the Senate’s only independents ...

Inmates and families say costly per-minute fees and limited services under a widely adopted system have turned a ...

Eric Adams’ failed reform bid is a warning sign for the new mayor attempting to take on one of the city’s most persistent ...

Soundproof booths equipped with computers and high-speed Internet aim to reduce barriers to care in communities where doctors ...