Category: U.S. News

The U.S. is short millions of homes. The causes are decades old and mostly local, and the fixes range from zoning rewrites to factory-built housing.

Immigration courts are not part of the judicial branch. That structural fact explains much of the delay, inconsistency and political turbulence in the system.

A federal disaster declaration unlocks money, personnel and authority. Here is how the process works, who pays for what, and where it commonly breaks down.

Every ten years the census decides how hundreds of billions in federal dollars are distributed and how many seats each state holds in Congress.