This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The story of the 13 children who deputies say were discovered being held prisoner in a Perris, Calif., home has shocked the world. But there’s a way to help the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seven-year-old Natividad Sánchez Ventura is the youngest of ten children, and their daily life is predictably chaotic. After school, Natividad and her siblings return home where their mother is either…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) have become increasingly popular in cities and counties across the country, and are effective in reducing crime and incarceration among participants according to recent evaluations.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The relationship between state gun laws and the flow of firearms between states can be measured using data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which traces guns’ origins…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As male harassers and assaulters have been unmasked over the last few months, the reckoning has largely been confined to the realm of the white-collar worker, particularly in industries with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Soon after Matt Huckabay started his job as executive director, he saw a baby, teen mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother arriving together for services at the Center for Violence-Free Relationships. Each of the women…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The swinish behavior currently exemplified by Harvey Weinstein is, sorry to say, a constant in history. This is America, where every human problem has a technological fix. So let us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It seems like there is no place in America that is immune to a mass shooting. Inside a darkened movie theater. At a nightclub throbbing with sweaty bodies. During Sunday services at church. At…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tears roll down her face. Through the sobbing, she describes how her family has suffered at the hands of one of the world’s deadliest street gangs. She pauses for a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Melinda Gates is adding her voice to the many women across the world speaking out about sexual harassment. The philanthropist and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation published an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Another mass shooting has turned some corner of an American city or town into a scene of terror and chaos, and the death toll — one is too many —…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last week, a day after The New York Times reported many years’ worth of sexual-harassment allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, another alarming report appeared, this one in Science magazine. The setting was different—Antarctic research expeditions,…