On a recent wintry afternoon, Mark T. Bertolini, the 58-year-old chief executive of Aetna, the health insurer, was sitting in his Hartford office wearing a dark suit and a crisp, white, French-cuffed shirt. But instead of a necktie, he wore a...
Two school resource officers employed by the Ferguson, Mo., police department to work in the city's schools engage in "police action that is unreasonable for a school environment," the U.S. Department of Justice found in an...
A newspaper editor was handed startling evidence that Britain’s top law enforcement official knew there was a VIP pedophile network in Westminster, at the heart of the British government. What happened next in the summer of 1984 helps to...
Research shows that inner-city violence can be as traumatizing as war. A program in Philadelphia is pioneering new ways to treat the urban wounded. The fight that started Keith Davis on a path to a new life began when he was buying...
It's hard not to see that the anti-immigration wing of the Republican Party is ascendant right now. GOP leaders in Congress have spent the last two months trying—and failing—to roll back protections for millions of undocumented...
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This week a public opinion poll was released by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health asking people to list the factors most likely to cause ill health in adults. The top five included lack of...
It used to be that housing programs for homeless folks required people to get treated for mental illness and addiction first. The idea was that people needed to clean up before they were ready to live on their own. It turned out, however, that...
I'm a marriage and family counselor and author. I've written 12 books on health and relationship. I'm working on a new book on how we can reverse the divorce trends and help relationships survive and thrive. I believe one critical issue is to...
For the bulk of her career, Lavonda Thompson, a 48-year old bus driver and school custodian in Hartsville, S.C., never questioned either her role or the larger system she was serving. “My job was to drive the bus and clean the...
A new report from UCLA finds that K-12 schools in Wisconsin suspend black high school students at a higher rate than anywhere else in the country and has the second-highest disparity in suspension rates between white and black students....
When we think of Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, we think of the loss of memory or the inability to recognize familiar faces, places, and things. But for caregivers, the bigger challenge often is coping with the other behaviors common...
Sweeping statewide juvenile justice reforms in Georgia and Kentucky are saving millions of dollars while stressing more effective alternatives than detention for low-level offenders, a new report says. The 11-page report by the National...
In a recently posted video on CNN Opinion, journalist J ohn D. Sutter traveled to Iceland to report on the state of childhood poverty. What did he find? That the country has one of the lowest rates of childhood poverty in the world; parents are...
Tens of thousands of Connecticut infants and toddlers are at risk for social and emotional problems, and the professionals who interact with them most need mental health training in order to help them, according to a report released this week....