Not long before Tony and April Davis met, he was facing up to 60 years in prison for robbery and drug charges. April’s young children had been taken from her and placed in foster care. She was also facing jail time for drug use and child...
I was listening to John Lewis being interviewed (On Being, Krista Tippett, NPR ) about his civil rights work on this MLK weekend – impressed by this 74-year-old who is still able to speak of hope…even when discussing Congress! I can only...
There are millions of people in America that lack the means to feed their families legally. That’s the claim made by Dion Drew, who speaks from personal experience rather than statistical authority. Drew grew up in the projects and...
On the one hand, you can't blame Dartmouth College President Philip Hanlon for trying. Alcohol has long been a problem at campuses around the country, and particularly at the secluded New Hampshire Ivy . An increasing focus on sexual assault...
Conversationsabout affordable housing are often dominated with the question of how to get lower-income residents in expensive cities—like New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco (and their surrounding areas) safe, affordable places to live....
Teens can't control impulses and make rapid, smart decisions like adults can — but why? Research into how the human brain develops helps explain. In a teenager, the frontal lobe of the brain, which controls decision-making, is built but...
If the populations of Knoxville and Chattanooga were combined, they still wouldn't equal the number of adults in Shelby County who experienced some form of abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction as a kid. A new privately...
The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center released a groundbreaking report today that provides important insights to guide the next steps for the nation’s second-largest state to reform its juvenile justice system. The report,...
A broad study of reforms in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department “puts a nail in the coffin” of the strategy of youth prisons as a public safety option, said the director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group of the Annie E. Casey...
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S new budget is expected to include hundreds of millions of dollars for so-called precision medicine. The initiative, which he introduced last week in his State of the Union address, has bipartisan support and is a bright spot in...
Birdlike and in his 80s, the patient had come to the hospital complaining of a new cough. But it was not he whom my colleagues and I found most disquieting. It was his middle-aged daughter. With a practiced dexterity, she had managed to wheel her...
Chirlane McCray, the wife of Mayor Bill de Blasio, revealed on Wednesday that she had been surrounded by mental illness most of her life — first as a child of parents who had depression and later as a mother of a daughter who is recovering from...
“Prescription Drug Misuse Among Homeless Youth,” Harmony Rhoades, Hailey Winetrobe, and Eric Rice. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol. 138 (May 2014). What it’s about: Researchers asked 435 homeless youth, recruited from two Los...
It is now conventional wisdom that the brain is the seat of the mind; it is alone through the brain's workings that we think and feel and know. But what is a brain, anyway? My thoughts turned to this question reading a recent New York Times...
Ask Americans if someone in their family served in the military, and the answer is probably no. After all, fewer than 1 percent of Americans serve these days. But ask if one of their grandfathers served, and you'll likely get a different...