Investigative Journalism & In-Depth Reporting
Clearly labeled editorial analysis and commentary on patterns across TIJ beats
Brookings argues the federal debt trajectory is worse than CBO's baseline projection. Plus: Niskanen on the D.C. National Guard deployment, AEI on $30 billion in ed tech, CFR's 2026 conflict…
Inspectors general booked a record $65.6 billion in FY 2025. GAO mapped $100 billion in duplication. DOJ posted record False Claims Act recoveries. Across the same week, Pentagon civilian rolls…
Heritage's higher-education collection, a Brookings estimate of 668,000 jobs lost to ICE enforcement, AEI on the $30 billion ed-tech market, and more — surveyed across the spectrum.
This week's policy research from RAND, Brookings, the Tax Foundation, AEI, the Center for American Progress, and the Cato Institute — on the U.S.-China military balance, open-weight AI, balanced budgets,…
Five federal documents this week describe a single problem: a record-level enforcement output drawn from a shrinking oversight workforce. An Investigative Journal analysis of patterns across this week's TIJ coverage.
Our weekly survey of new research from policy institutes across the ideological spectrum, with attention to who funds the work, what the methodology shows, and how findings intersect with TIJ…
TIJ's weekend analysis: a single week of public-record disclosures shows an American disclosure architecture splitting in two — even as federal enforcement surges in visible cases.
The week ending April 30, 2026 produced an unusually heavy slate of think tank output across the political spectrum, with the ongoing Iran war driving much of the foreign-policy commentary…
TIJ counted at least $2.4 billion in newly alleged or recently adjudicated fraud this week — consistent with the upper bound of the GAO's $233-$521 billion federal fraud range. Patterns…
TIJ's weekly survey of policy papers from Brookings, AEI, Cato, RAND, Urban Institute, Tax Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, and EPI.