Many of the students Kameelah Rashad interacts with in her work as the Muslim chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania live in a state of fear and insecurity. "Many students feel Muslims are the exception -- that everyone else has freedom of...
Back in 2011, the city of Seattle launched an experimental drug enforcement program that has been compared, if somewhat unfairly, to the infamous “Hamsterdam” episode of HBO's The Wire. Fans of the show of course remember the story:...
During the sentencing of Thomas DiFiore, a leader of the infamous Bonanno crime family, Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times noted a trend: At 71, DiFiore is one of the “oldfellas,” a generation of aging Mafiosi who are...
Los Angeles County officials are preparing to crack down on doctors who inappropriately prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to foster youth and children in the juvenile delinquency system, according to a copy of the plans obtained by The...
I have a movie recommendation for you. It has all the makings of a blockbuster: suspense, humor, lovable characters you can relate to, and it’s a tearjerker to boot. It follows the protagonists as they fight for their lives through all...
Editor’s Note: As jurors deliberate a verdict for Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston and its surrounding towns continue to feel the aftereffects of the bombing. Dr. Barbara Gortych of Watertown, which was the...
PLAYWRIGHT Marsha T. Jones makes no secret about the trauma of her childhood, not anymore. Sexually abused by an uncle from the age of three to 16, she kept silent for decades, afraid of retribution, or worse, that no one would believe her....
It seems like every firefighter you ask can rattle off examples of 911 calls that didn't come even close to being life-threatening. "A spider bite that's two or three weeks old," says Jeff Jacobs. "A headache, or a laceration," says Ashley...
Some have called a South Carolina police officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black man an aberration. Others call it a too typical act of police racism. But it is undoubtedly one of a growing number of cases in which police killings of...
If you have an emergency, you dial 911. If you find yourself in need of emergency food or shelter, you can dial 211 — but help might not come very soon. On a busy morning at Seattle's Crisis Clinic, specially trained operators such as...
Mental illness remains highly stigmatized, even after celebrities like Brooke Shields , Mel Gibson and Robin Williams went public with their stories. So it was really a big deal 60 years ago when the Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall...
We had both just gotten home for the holiday when Dad calmly announced to the dinner table, “Your uncle has had a heart attack.” An explosion of questions and half-eaten rice erupted from my brother, an emergency-medicine resident,...
Police officers in Meridian, Mississippi, were spending so much time hauling handcuffed students from school to the local juvenile jail that they began describing themselves as “just a taxi service. It wasn’t because schools in this...
Would better education significantly reduce income inequality in America? No, says recent study from the Brookings Institution. But that doesn't mean that better education wouldn't help the overall economic picture. The study suggests that...
“Racial reconciliation is not something that white people do for other people,” proclaimed Russell Moore in March. Moore, a white man from Mississippi, was opening a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville,...