John was 7 when I met him, and dealing with more than any child could be expected to endure. For the first years of his life, he had been witness to his father’s alcoholic binges, which often involved shouting, breaking objects and hitting John...
I DO NOT forgive Dylann Roof, a racist terrorist whose name I hate saying or knowing. I have no immediate connection to what happened in Charleston, S.C., last week beyond my humanity and my blackness, but I do not foresee ever forgiving his...
Terri Anderson signed up for California's Medicaid program earlier this year, hoping she'd finally get treatment for her high blood pressure. But the insurer operating her Medicaid plan assigned the 57-year-old to a doctor across town from her...
Fryman Canyon is one of those special places in the city of Los Angeles — a bit of country and canyon nestled just off the crest of Mulholland Drive, with gorgeous views of the valley and mountains. It's favored by the canine set —...
She arrives wearing baggy sweat pants and over sized shirts, and I know she is living out of the "truth" she has assigned to her sense of self. She is walking in what she believes is her truth. Actually, it isn't true that she is shameful or...
In the aftermath of the shooting massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, many people are asking how and why this tragedy could have happened. It is not a simple question, but it does have concrete answers. And a group of professors...
The effects of mental health disorders followed adolescents into adulthood, resulting in poorer education and employment, according to a series of meta-analyses on the relationship between adolescent health and adult outcomes. Daniel R. Hale,...
Everything about Rilya Wilson’s death was horrific. She entered the Florida foster system a bright-eyed toddler, and disappeared when she was about 4 years old. And it took the state Department of Children and Families—responsible...
In the mid-nineteen-eighties, shortly after the convictions of six members of the House of Representatives and one senator in the F.B.I. bribery sting code-named Abscam, one of the bureau’s anticorruption units turned its attention...
How to manage stress effectively is one of life’s great challenges – for example our survey of public and voluntary sector professionals found that 93% said they are stressed at work either all, some, or a lot of the...
So many of us are overwhelmed by what feels like nonstop, never-ending demands at work and at home, with smartphones keeping us always on and workplaces that often demand we do more with less. Scott Eblin, a former corporate executive and now...
“If you have a child with cancer, you wouldn’t wait until they had reached stage four cancer before starting treatment. It’s no different with an eating disorder, because if you delay treatment, then the illness becomes more...
Drive west from downtown Cincinnati, over the railroad tracks that snake beneath the 8th Street Viaduct, and you’ll find a little slice of Appalachia, nestled between the Ohio River and the steep slopes of Price Hill. When coal mining jobs in...
The first time 18-year-old Isaac came across a question on a college application that asked if he had ever faced disciplinary action in high school, he decided to be honest and checked the “yes” box. Asked for more information, he...
High Bridge, spanning the Harlem River and connecting Manhattan to the Bronx, is the oldest bridge in New York City. It is also an aqueduct, or used to be. Built in the 1840s, when public health officials across the country were battling...