Emily Badger

About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at risk.

Revisiting a theory about chance collisions and innovation.

Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred in other comparably wealthy countries.

Readers share concerns like headlight glare, streetlight design and the aging of American motorists.

Is this how one of the world’s greatest cities still deals with garbage? Here’s what will be required to take New York’s trash bags off the street.

To understand a messy problem, The Times needed to look at the city from a different perspective, one where garbage sits at the foreground.

Chicago reversed the flow of a river. Boston put a highway underground. And New York, well, came close to enacting congestion pricing.

The retreat by the police coincided with a surge in reckless driving and a rise in road fatalities.

Areas with good data often have policy debates that are not possible in places with poor data.

It’s a quiet force that contributes to a sameness across the country and to climate change.