As Election Day in the U.S. begins, media scholar Thomas Patterson shares tips for careful and responsible reporting.

In making voting decisions, Democrats and Independents were more likely to rely on news media as a chief information source than Republicans.

Know the research, know the survey data, know the legal landscape and know the history: Those were the big takeaways for reporters covering felony disenfranchisement from an hourlong webinar on Oct.

In the 2024 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in thousands of national and local races up and down the ballot — from the presidency to state legislature seats, along ...

Young voters have been a major voting bloc since 1971, when the U.S. lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18. Today, they are one of America’s largest voting blocs — about 50 million people aged ...

Elections in the U.S. are decentralized. Local jurisdictions or states, not the federal government, decide how to run them. There is no single voting method, and decisions on which voting method to ...

Nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. received $37.4 billion in tax benefits in 2021, more than half of which came from state and local tax exemptions, according to a recent study published in JAMA.

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