"Children's exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences is the greatest unaddressed public health threat of our time." Robert W. Block, past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Public Health Week (April 1-7) is an opportunity to celebrate the work and contributions of public health professionals and advocates like you. This year, we’re celebrating the theme “Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health.” APHA will be coordinating activities, and we...

Editor's Note: RSVP to join us at Brookings on December 5 for an event focused on this report’s findings, Homeownership while black: Examining the devaluation of assets in black neighborhoods . Homeownership lies at the heart of the American Dream, representing success, opportunity, and wealth. However, for many of its citizens, America deferred that dream. For much of the 20th century, the devaluing of black lives led to segregation and racist federal housing policy through redlining that...

The events at the Senate Judiciary Committee left many around the country feeling raw. Perhaps it is good that we can still be shocked, but shock is a state that does not lend itself to immediate mobilization, so we thought we would leave this space open today for a discussion of what our readers are thinking and feeling and what we each plan to do as a result of yesterday’s cultural spectacle.