After more than 20 years on Peoria City Council, Chuck Grayeb is running for the city’s top job on a tough-on-crime platform.

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...

Black women are more than twice as likely as white women to die from pregnancy related causes (doi:10.1136/bmj.r226).1 This inequality isn’t fully explained by socioeconomic factors. The explanation ...

The president’s blueprints for the world’s intractable problems represent rejections of decades-old U.S. policy.

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Visit any local homeless-service agency to see society’s most intractable problems converge: Poverty. Addiction. Crime. Lousy ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to afford their basic needs. But this is a problem we can actually solve.

The CDU is likely to win, but the AfD will still be sidelined, and there’s little chance of better policies.