March 2016

Inside the Malacanang Palace that morning, President Benigno Aquino welcomed visiting Japanese Emperor Akihito. Outside, Narcisa Claveria, 85, dressed in a fuchsia pink traditional Filipina dress, stood on the frontline of a small group of protesters. She had walked about a quarter mile under the scorching Manila heat in the late morning to get there. It was tiring for an 85-year-old woman like her, but she was determined. "My message to the emperor is for Japan to recognize us. They already...

When clinical psychologist Dr. Mel Rose first came to Home on the Range therapeutic ranch for an interview for its open executive director position, she said she was impressed by the longevity of the program’s staff. Rose said this spoke of the dedication to the ranch, as well as showed a “continuity of care” toward children that’s different from other programs with high rates of staff turnover. Plus, Rose said, everyone has been very welcoming since she began at the job in August. “I...

Judge Rob Philyaw says most of what he does happens behind closed doors. The Hamilton County Juvenile Court judge addressed members of the Rotary Club Thursday at the Convention Center to give an overview of Juvenile Court and how it serves the community. He began by educating about the group called CASA (court appointed special advocates). Started in 1977 in Seattle, CASA made its way to Chattanooga about 30 years ago. The group works to obtain better information on the children Juvenile...

Nell Cox lives on the Upper West Side in one of those kooky apartments you see only in Nora Ephron movies—quaint with a certain country flair (her living room furniture includes a daybed topped with a vintage quilt), filled with precarious stacks of books and papers and knicknacks and the odd glass trophy commemorating a long creative life, the kind of perfectly charming mess that indicates an artist is in residence. When I arrive, on a freezing afternoon in early February, her radiator is...

The U.S. economy right now is a pretty mixed bag: On Tuesday, the White House released a reassuring economic report that says the overall U.S. economy has rebounded strongly since the Great Recession, and that it’s still on the rise. But the report also acknowledged that rising wealth and income disparities urgently need to be addressed. A new report by the Economic Innovation Group , a nonprofit focused on researching and advocating on America’s economic challenges, confirms this duality.

Around 4 p.m. on a recent Friday, Fiorella Guevara got around to eating her lunch. Then she leaned back in the student-sized chair where she was sitting in an empty classroom and let out a long sigh. “Oh man, I’m tired,” said Guevara, the new community-school director at M.S. 50 in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. “This is why I never sit down for too long.” Instead, she bounds from room to room, checking on the classes she oversees, meeting with the principal or calling up parents,...

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