Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (c. 1590) is a story of revenge and rape. Titus murders Tamora’s son. Tamora then has her other two sons revenge their brother’s death by raping Titus’ daughter Lavinia....
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Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman has co-authored a new report on the long-term health benefits for participants in two seminal studies in early childhood intervention. The report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)...
Lo que muchos adultos consideran de poca importancia puede resultar en daños sicológicos y físicos en sus hijos. Y estos daños no tienen fecha de vencimiento, aseguran expertos. Se trata de experiencias ocurridas...
The recent, well-publicized shootings of unarmed black men by police officers have raised many troubling questions. Perhaps the most fundamental: whether these tragedies reflect a larger societal bias that sees men of color as...
Looking at Set Free Alaska CEO Philip Licht now, one would never guess he knows the same darkness that plagues the agency’s clients. Set Free Alaska is a Christian, nonprofit substance abuse treatment center founded by Licht and board chair Ryan...
By most accounts, Orange County’s economy has recovered from the Great Recession. Jobs are on the rise, and home prices have nearly returned to their prerecession levels. However, as Margot Roosevelt so succinctly stated in the...
When Scott Jones left the house on July 8, 2011, he told his wife Janelle and his 10-year-old son Tyler that he was driving to High Desert State Prison to ask for his job back. He never made it to the prison. Police Chief Tom Downing and...
A study of 689 parents and 174 teachers across all grades by VitalSmarts found that parents and teachers are not talking to each other about important topics like drug use, mental health and changes in family dynamics. The study by New...
The Business of Recovery is a documentary focusing on the rehab industry, which I understand is huge. And if you are like me, you have a lot of secondhand experience with recovery and the claims made to entice or scare people into a rehab clinic....
If you have kids, you already know that the cute little humans come with a host of unavoidable costs—especially if you live in a big city. A new tool developed by the Economic Policy Institute adds up these...
Lisa Pryor has spent the majority of her 31 years abusing drugs. She began experimenting with pot and alcohol in elementary school and using meth at 17. When she was 23, she began using opiates. Her drug of choice was morphine but like most...
S ometime in the summer of 2016, if all goes according to plan, Marilee Roloff will retire as CEO of the Eastern Washington and North Idaho chapter of Volunteers for America with a big party. It won't be a celebration of her 31 years with...
Sonoma County supervisors appear ready to embark on an ambitious campaign to wipe out homelessness, envisioning a regional effort supported by local cities and public-private partnerships to create new affordable housing for an estimated 2,000...
Prairie Care’s new 50 bed hospital for Children’s mental health is a tiny step in providing badly needed services for the traumatized children passing through Minnesota institutions. HCMC alone sees 800 to 1000 emergency...