Dr. Thomas R. Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, announced on Tuesday that he planned to step down in November, ending his 13-year tenure at the helm of the world’s leading funder of behavioral-health research...
A chart in the accompanying report from the state’s Office of Child Advocate tallies 55 instances of suicidal or self-harming behavior during a year in the same facilities. The release of the video and report today is the...
In the comedy world, it's a commonly held belief that there's a dark side to being funny — and Kelly Carlin is living proof. The daughter of the late comic genius George Carlin has just written a memoir about her childhood. It's...
Richard Cabral's neck, chest and arms are covered with tattoos. They depict Mexican gang culture, his friends, uncles, even his daughter Bella. Cabral's intense look and his powerful acting have landed him a lot of TV roles, but his path to...
The United Nations describes violence against women as a “pandemic in diverse forms.” [i] Thirty-five percent of women have experienced sexual and/or physical violence, often in intimate relationships. In some nations, an unimaginable seventy percent of women have suffered sexual and/or physical violence in intimate relationships. [ii] In every country in the world, the threat of sexual and physical violence is one women must adapt to, rather than overcome.
Today’s in-depth article by the Huffington Post on the billions of dollars in fines and judgments paid out by big drug companies on civil and criminal complaints for promoting drugs (not even established as safe and effective for adults)...
Before Eric Garner’s death, I had never heard of Tompkinsville, the Staten Island neighborhood where Garner regularly hung out, near the busy intersection of Victory Boulevard and Bay Street. This was Garner’s spot. He played...
When I began sex work, I was 20 years old. I’d moved away from home to live in a city for the first time, and I wanted a job that would afford me ample hours for writing and completing my graduate school coursework. I also felt the pull...
Ki Ann Goosens, an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used to rail against the scientists who weren’t producing enough useful information about schizophrenia. Her brother suffers...
The trailer where Dylann Roof found refuge is faded yellow with a thousand tiny dents. It is on the western edge of Columbia, S.C., along an unpaved road strewn with damp garbage, and it is where Roof briefly lived until the day he allegedly...
By his own lights, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ambassador, senator, sociologist, and itinerant American intellectual, was the product of a broken home and a pathological family . He was born in 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but raised mostly...
In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's become a normal life event. "We've chosen the response of the deprivation of...
Rosie’s marriage did not last long. But many months after she returned to her parents’ cottage on a south Indian tea estate, her husband’s voice rattled around her head like a vengeful earworm, berating her for her dark skin...
In anticipation of Pope Francis' visit to the U.S., a national advocacy campaign is underway. Pope Francis’ call for compassion for those in poverty extends beyond acts of charity and mercy. Our fundamental concern for human dignity...
As a medical student, Damon Tweedy noticed that many of the diseases he learned about in class were more prevalent among black people than white people, and that the black patients often fared worse than their white counterparts. Tweedy, now a...