The COVID Tracking Project – a 15-month endeavor, powered by volunteers, to catalog statistics throughout the U.S. related to the pandemic – will become part of UCSF’s permanent library collection. UC ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Alexis Madrigal was in his kitchen on Wednesday, March 4, when his phone rang. It was a warm, sunny evening in Oakland ...

Journalists with The Atlantic, in collaboration with another data scientist, launched the COVID Tracking Project in response to the coronavirus pandemic last year. The project is ending, citing more ...

The Trump administration stopped funding a national database tracking domestic terrorism, hate crimes and school shootings in a sweeping round of cuts to violence prevention projects, eliminating a ...

It’s crunch time on climate change. The IPCC’s latest report told the world just how bad it is, and...it’s bad. Companies, NGOs, and governments are scrambling for fixes, both short-term and long-term ...

This week the New York Times revealed the Hemisphere Project, in which the government is paying AT&T for access to an enormous phone records database. While some aspects of the program are unclear, we ...

It’s a good day for a chokehold. This was the Facebook post of a Phoenix police officer. In a different post, a Philadelphia police lieutenant recounted a courthouse scene in which a defendant and his ...