These analyses from some of the nation’s most capable diplomats are valuable. But their recommendations do not go far enough. Revitalizing U.S. foreign policy will require more than a renewed ...

Austin skyline. The city's “Reimagining Public Safety” project used evidence-based policymaking to inform the city's budget decisions and to shape public safety policies starting in 2020.

As a researcher and science writer wondering like many others why evidence does not always appear to make a difference in policy, I found myself deeply engaged in Karen Bogenschneider and Tom ...

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

Califf is the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and is currently an instructor at the Duke University School of Medicine. Recently, the new chair of the Centers for Disease ...

The unprecedented technological evolution in government makes it easy to forget about another development: the growth, change, and improvement in the delivery of federal government services. To learn ...

Despite some recent improvements, the academic achievement of American students remains below that of those in most industrialized nations, and the gap between African American and Hispanic students ...

What makes an education intervention evidence-based? Over the last 20 years, that question has moved front and center as more federal and state agencies require programs to show evidence of ...

Amid shrinking budgets, multiplying federal and state requirements for school improvement, and rapidly changing educational technology, it’s critical for education leaders to identify whether a given ...