50 years after 'The Power Broker,' Robert Caro's dreams are still coming true
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, ...
US will let more people take methadone at home
The new federal rules allow stable patients to take home 28 days’ worth of methadone. Colorado, New York and Massachusetts ...
Vouchers ease start-up stress for churches seeing demand for more Christian schools
The state has an expansive voucher program in which taxpayers help to pay tuition for all families who want to send their ...
Alert: Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb.
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
The two main bodies involved — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons — were created by Nepal’s government in 2015 to deal ...
Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?
Black gay and bisexual men made up about 38% of the estimated 37,981 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 50% of these men ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...
Tourists can finally visit the Oval Office. A replica is opening near the White House on Monday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington is getting a new tourist stop that offers visitors the next best thing to being in the Oval ...
College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be
That’s right. On average, early adulthood is more secure — in terms of career, family, health and a host of other outcomes — for college graduates. What we often miss, though, is the insecurity that ...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
Common understandings of gentrification and urban development often frame these urban processes as natural, linear and even inevitable for low-income neighborhoods. The argument goes that once you see ...
Trump and Harris vocabularies signal their different frames of mind
Harris had nine “future” statements, all of which were about what she intends to do. For example, she said, “And when I am president, we will do that for all people, understanding that the value I ...
Self-forgiveness is more than self-comfort − a philosopher explains
Rather, as philosopher Robin Dillon pointed out, self-forgiveness suggests that someone is no longer being consumed or overwhelmed by those negative feelings. In short, it is possible to forgive ...