Analysis

Senegal's debt, DHS contract savings, FBI crime testimony and EPA's $310 billion estimate: four figures met an independent check this week. Every one moved.

TIJ analysis: the week's binding deadlines came from courts, comment dockets, and auditors — not Congress, which punted funding to December 11 and trimmed its own calendar.

This week's policy research: RAND models AI's threat to federal revenue, CFR presses a two-year munitions sprint, AEI audits $700 billion in pandemic unemployment funds, EPI updates the teacher pay…

Eight notable policy papers released July 27 to August 6, 2026, from RAND, CFR, AEI, Cato, the Manhattan Institute, Roosevelt, CAP and Niskanen, with each institution's orientation and funding base…

Week in Review is The Investigative Journal’s Saturday analysis column, connecting the accountability reporting we published over the past seven days. Every figure below is drawn from a public record;…

This week's think tank roundup: Brookings on AI's 'borrowed expertise,' RAND on NATO 3.0, AEI on alliances, plus new state tax and minimum-wage data.

DOJ and EPA booked record settlements this week even as GAO audits exposed fraying federal oversight — the watchdogs meant to prevent waste and fraud.

TIJ's weekly survey of notable think-tank research across the spectrum: Cato on tariff incidence, the Tax Foundation on sales taxes, AEI on zoning, Brookings on school spending, CAP on grocery…

The week's $6.5 billion health care fraud takedown was the headline number. Read against GAO's improper-payments tally, the F-35's $2 trillion price tag, and a sanctions sweep against an overseas…

A survey of the week's policy research from across the spectrum: RAND on AI and the power grid, plus Cato, CAP, Brookings, AEI, the Tax Foundation, Urban Institute and Carnegie…