News about United States Politics and Government, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

ASEC data serve as the basis for the well-known annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and health insurance in the United States (DeNavas-Walt, Proctor and Smith, 2013). But we use other CPS ...

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We ...

William Givens was in the 1810 Hopkins County, Kentucky, census. Why did he come here? That is a question that has puzzled the descendants of the approximately sixty American Revolutionary ...