If love is the answer, Amarie is acing the test. Mom, aunties, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, cousins — her sprawling Eastern Shoshone family — brims with it. Her ready wide-eyed smile reflects the abundance, and she...
Princeton political scientist John Dilulio dubbed them superpredators—murderous teenagers who could commit heinous acts of violence without feeling a trace of guilt. “They fear neither the stigma of arrest nor the pain of...
Parental death from suicide is known to be linked with mental health problems and increased risk of suicide in the bereaved child, but little is known about the long-term risks of suicide after parental death from other causes. In...
Veterans Day is a day to remember and reflect on the sacrifices of our military veterans and also to thank them for their service. It’s a celebration that honors America's veterans for their patriotism and willingness to offer their lives...
Shared Hope International, which tracks how many states have passed laws against trafficking, finds many states are doing better at stopping the practice than when the first report was issued in 2011. [To listen to this story go to http://www.npr.org/2015/11/11/...fficking-report-says ]
Youth who are arrested for sex trafficking have significantly more childhood adversity than kids who are arrested for other crimes, according to recent research. Four Florida researchers analyzed the records of more than 64,000 juveniles to...
A new study has found that age-related differences in brain health — specifically the strength of connections between different regions of the brain — vary with fitness level in older adults. The findings, reported in the...
A week after it was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a paper by the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton showing that middle-aged white Americans are dying in much larger numbers than they used...
Restorative justice is a wonderful concept; a way to make student discipline less punitive and more productive. But in Los Angeles Unified , it's little more than a slogan, generally misunderstood and rarely applied. The district did a...
This story is part of a special project by Urbanite magazine that grew out of the unrest in Baltimore following Freddie Gray’s funeral in April. Find the whole thing here . When all else failed, Freddie could run. As a...
In 1994, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development embarked on an experiment to test the effect of housing vouchers. The Moving to Opportunity study randomly assigned some 47 percent of the 4,600 participating...
Racism on American campuses is a matter of national concern again this week following protests at the University of Missouri at Columbia that led on Monday to the resignations of both the campus’s chancellor and the system’s...
In 2013, I met a woman who’d spent two years in solitary confinement. Her words rattled me. She told me, “You’re not going to get it. You think you get it, but you don’t, and it’s so much worse than you...
The death penalty has always provided a window into the darkest corners of American life. Every pathology that infects the nation as a whole—racism, most notably—also affects our decisions about whom to execute. A new report from the Death...
Juan, once homeless and addicted to heroin, was arrested when he broke into a warehouse. “It was empty, I just needed a place to sleep,” Juan said. The police found drugs on Juan, and charged him for possession, which was...