The powerful 7.3 magnitude tremor that struck Nepal this week left an already traumatized population gripped by even deeper fear, underlining concerns that the country is ill-prepared to cope with the mental side effects. Tuesday's quake caused...
Human Rights Watch released a report today, Callous and Cruel, that describes in chilling detail the degree to which “unnecessary, excessive, and even malicious force” is used in jails and prisons throughout the U.S. to control...
First Lady Chirlane McCray launched a new program at Bellevue Hospital Tuesday for kids struggling with mental health problems. The “partial hospitalization” program is meant for 6- to 17-year-olds whose troubles are too severe for...
Just outside Pittsburgh is the tiny borough of Braddock, Pa., best known as the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill. Today, it's something of a poster child for rust belt revitalization, a place where artists can buy property...
Bad news for Londoners getting sick of being reminded of how big their housing affordability crisis is: someone has come up with a new, graphic way of showing them once more just how bad things have got. It’s called Streetgraphs ,...
There is a nation of the dispossessed. The inhabitants are both exiled and among us, in temporary cities on others’ lands, and in our cities living in shadows. Their common national traits are fear, uncertainty, seemingly permanent...
F airy tales are seductive. A sweet-faced, innocent hero is victimized by evildoers: poisoned, enslaved, enticed into an oven, locked in a cage to be eaten. Our protagonist withstands these outrages with bravery and fortitude. And then...
Want to end the war on drugs? Lobby your local police department. They’ve quietly had the power to end the whole thing this entire time—and some are doing just that. This week, sick of an opioid overdose crisis that had killed four...
In a four-bedroom, white house by the airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2-year-old Jacob squirmed around in Mickey Mouse pajamas, his explosion of poofy black hair pulled into a topknot. He smiled shyly, pushed a red toy car back and forth, and...
Baltimore did not need more negative publicity this week. But in a bit of fateful timing, the Equality of Opportunity Project of Harvard University has released two papers concluding that the income mobility for poor children in...
The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without fail, until there are thickets of young Asian and Hispanic women on nearly every street corner along the main roads of Flushing, Queens. As if on cue, cavalcades of battered...
By Grace Bauer, James Bell, Sarah Bryer, Jody Kent Lavy, Marcy Mistrett, Marc Schindler and Marie Williams Like most people watching the unrest unfold in Baltimore on the night of April 27, we felt dismay and hoped that no one would be seriously...
Abstract The effect of interpersonal trauma on sexuality can be profound. The field of sexual trauma is complex empirically and clinically, with contradictory theories and conflicting data. Research definitions and treatment protocols for child...
In 1993, Charlyn Zlotnik photographed Sister Elaine Roulet, a nun who helped open the Children’s Center at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, New York, the state’s only maximum security prison for...
On a recent episode of the podcast “Criminal,” a 71-year-old woman named Sandie Alger spoke of her life of crime. Alger, who first started stealing checkbooks (and identities) as a teenager, found herself in and out of California jails and...