America’s poor don’t have much of a chance. Housing policies segregate them into neighborhoods with bad schools and high crime , college is out of reach , and wages aren’t rising with the cost of...
Rikers Island, like many New York state prisons, is crowded with people arrested for relatively minor infractions. In 2013, the NYPD arrested over 350,000 people, most for nonviolent crimes, including nearly 8,000 for criminal mischief...
Teens with bulimia recover faster when their parents are involved in their treatment, new research reports. Traditionally, parents have been excluded from the treatment and counseling of teens with bulimia, the researchers said. But, the...
On a summer evening, after shucking shellfish in a factory all day, Yakelin Soto Ortiz rides the bus to Olneyville, walks into Clinica Esperanza and takes a seat in an exam room. When two doctors enter, she explains in Spanish that she has...
We’re taught that giving is superior to receiving. Valuing giving is a helpful corrective to human narcissism . Seeing what others need to be happy is a beautiful act of kindness, which also fulfills us as nothing else can. ...
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess the effects of trauma on children, found that almost two-thirds of children are at risk for at least one adverse childhood experience, which could...
Each year, the United States spends $80 billion1 to lock away more than 2.4 million people in its jails and prisons2—budgetary allocations that far outpace spending on housing, transportation, and higher education.3 But costs run deeper...
As a remarkable new photo archive of urban transformations shows, making city streets more user-friendly doesn’t have to be that complicated. The archive put together by Brazilian urban design collective Urb-i houses a collection of...
University of Florida Health researchers have uncovered more evidence of a link between the brain's stress response and a protein related to Alzheimer's disease. The research, conducted on a mouse model and in human cells, found that a...
It’s one of our nation’s most depressing claims to fame, on par with our stunning guns per capita figure or gargantuan prison population : The United States is one of just three countries in the world...
Minnesota the attached resolution read on the floor of the House of Representatives at the end of the 2015 legislative session. We urge other states to do the same! We now are targeting county commissioners statewide. Awareness and education...
Asylum seekers held offshore are continuing to self-harm, attempt suicide and go on hunger strike, and grow more depressed the longer they are held on Manus and Nauru, new data from International Health and Medical Services reveal....
Policy based on fear may be expedient for politicians and profitable for the media and the security sector, but it is generally bad policy. Modern attitudes toward jihadist terrorism are a good example. By design, terrorism has always grabbed...
If Jeimy Carrasco had $50 million, she would remake Roosevelt High School into a place of smaller classes and stronger student-teacher relationships, and put an end to droning lectures and dry textbooks in favor of more active learning....