Since the 1960s, the U.S. welfare state has grown to cover not just the poor but, increasingly, the middle class. When there ...

As a result, the federal government is over $38 trillion in debt (that's over $111,000 for every American), and it's getting ...

Many liberals make welfare states sound like a dream. It's a style of government that rests upon a simple, perhaps even unassailable moral narrative — the balancing of self-interest with connected ...

Arlington Schools Waited Months to Implement Protocols to Keep Sex Offenders Out of Women’s Bathrooms. Why? In Defense of ‘Impostor Syndrome’ Some Mysteries Aren’t All That Mysterious, Pal The Amazing ...

Conservative crank Ann Coulter has made a career out of bad manners, so it was no surprise when she slammed her libertarian hosts at the annual International Students for Liberty confab in February as ...

Although America’s social welfare system may be lacking in relative size, it more than makes up for it with its complexities, according to Christopher D. Howard, William & Mary’s Pamela C. Harriman ...

When Congress reformed the nation's welfare program 20 years ago, it set a new condition for eligibility: Recipients must have a job or be searching for one. But the 1996 reforms also gave states ...

In 2015 I published a book called The Rise of the Military Welfare State that chronicled the history of military benefits and social services in the all-volunteer force. For many in the military, the ...

During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them ...