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The three former Homeland Security secretaries called for Congress to streamline oversight of the Department of Homeland Security as "a matter of critical importance to national security on which there is broad bipartisan agreement."

A new Annenberg Public Policy Center study of the first 2016 presidential debate finds that what Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump they say about the issues – and don’t say – affects what viewers learn about their plans.

More than three dozen CEOs and other top executives of U.S. businesses argued that federal funding for basic scientific research is an investment in Americans’ prosperity, security and quality of life.

Vice President Joe Biden toured the Annenberg Public Policy Center on Monday and met with some of the policy center's postdoctoral fellows in the Science of Science Communication.

The Internet Archive and APPC announced a collaboration to help journalists and the public better understand how TV news and talk shows present the presidential debates and what the public learns from them.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Kathleen Hall Jamieson said debates were an essential way for voters to learn about the presidential candidates, and that Donald Trump should participate in all three debates against Hillary Clinton.

In a new white paper, "Presidential Debates: What's Behind the Numbers?" researchers from the Annenberg Public Policy Center take a close look at the data on the audience, ratings, and motivations of viewers of general-election presidential debates.

Dominique Brossard, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and William K. Hallman, from Rutgers University, have joined APPC as visiting scholars in the Science of Science Communication.

Only a quarter of Americans can name all three branches of government, the poorest showing on that question in a half-dozen years, a new survey on civic knowledge has found. The GOP presidential candidate was known to only 84 percent of the public.