On an unbearably hot August afternoon last summer, I was walking along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., notebook in hand, when I ran into two good friends who were also on the clock, Joel Anderson of BuzzFeed and Jamelle Bouie of Slate....
The judge in an explosive and controversial Michigan custody case has insisted that three children spend time with their father, despite his long history of documented domestic violence. On Wednesday Oakland County Family Court Judge Lisa...
With an increasing majority of the global population living in cities, the question of urban public health is expanding far beyond its traditional practitioners. Urban planners, designers and developers are increasingly being asked how their...
By the time the first lady of Ruthless Records was in second grade, she realized her family was poor. But as a woman she struggled for more than a decade to stop blaming herself for the physical abuse she said she experienced in her...
Back in June 2015, Gloucester, Massachusetts, police chief Leonard Campanello announced that his officers would no longer arrest drug users who approached them seeking help . Photo by nathanmac87/Flickr . Instead, the department announced...
“As everyone knows, depressed people are some of the most boring people in the world,” Mindy Kaling writes in her bookIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? “I know this because when I was depressed, people fled. Except my...
Nearly 80% of U.S. employers now offer workplace health promotion programs aimed at improving the health and productivity of their workers. The most comprehensive of these programs—mainly at larger companies—have employees doing...
Jane Lazarre was pacing the hospital waiting room. Her son Khary, 18, had just had knee surgery, but the nurses weren’t letting her in to see him. “They told us he would be out of anesthesia in a few minutes,” she remembered....
Children who have been abused or exposed to other types of trauma typically experience more intense emotions than their peers, a byproduct of living in volatile, dangerous environments. But what if those kids could regulate their emotions?...
An inmate who was learning to fight California’s wildfires was killed by a guard Sunday during a riot at the prison where he was being trained, officials said this week. Jonathan Velarde, 23, was in the thick of a 45-person riot that...
The most telling number in a new report on how states decide who is a juvenile and who is an adult in the justice system isn’t necessarily 18 or even 17 or 16. Instead, consider the number four. That’s the number of states that have...
The transition to college — it’s a big one. Teens are suddenly faced with new freedoms, living arrangements, relationships, responsibilities and stress. Parents across the country are spending this month preparing their children for...
Safety is what everyone we talk to in Englewood wants — safety and respect from the police. They are not willing to settle for a false choice of one or the other. On June 29, Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK) took a novel...
After living in 14 different foster-home placements, 14-year-old Alex (name changed) said she felt depressed and isolated. Like the estimated 400,000 -plus other children currently living without a permanent family in the foster care system,...
For 22 years, Homer’s annual Run for Women, later the Breast Cancer Run, has raised awareness of breast cancer. Sponsored by Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic, this year the annual August run supports another of its programs, youth services,...