How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

While the longest shutdown in U.S. history leaves millions without paychecks and with mounting bills, this piece explores how ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we collectively believe they do. Every nation is defined and shaped by the stories ...

The other vision — an animating force inside the Trump administration — is exclusive and ethnonationalist. Vice President JD ...

The “dearly departed” figures which were killed off include a Census Bureau dataset showing the relationship between income ...

Proposition 50 will appear on the Nov. 4 special election ballot, giving California voters the chance to decide on changes to ...

A mild man in an age of militancy, Fetherstonhaugh was no rabble-rouser. He believed in the constitutional link with Britain ...

California Republicans appeared down but not out Wednesday after enduring a resounding defeat on Prop 50, handing Democrats a ...

One in eight Americans use federal food aid but halting the SNAP program would hurt Black Americans more than anyone else.

November 3, 2025 - California voters are being asked to weigh in on Proposition 50, a measure that would temporarily pause the state’s independent redistricting process and allow the Legislature to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated racial inequalities in the United States and Britain, with Black-led social enterprises ...