Designers should show how well instruments perform across different populations

A recent study shows that people with power embrace a "choice mindset" — and apply it to those with fewer resources

The company trained the system to recognize different skin conditions. But like Google itself, the app's data has a diversity problem.

The massively popular photo-editing app Facetune is driving a generation of young women to extreme and obsessive lengths to look flawless online.

Leslie Nguyen-Okwu explores what it means to balance on a hyphen, as an Asian and Black woman in America.

"He eats bread and drinks beer but it does not go well for him, then says, ‘Oh, my heart!’ and is dejected."

In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey for her Apple TV+ show 'The Oprah Conversation,' Elliot Page says he collapsed while promoting 'Inception' amid gender pressures.

Amanda Bynes struggled with gender dysphoria while filming 'She's the Man.' Learn more about her mental health struggles after the movie.

As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, most of us longed only for the day when the world would return to what it was before Covid-19 entered our vocabulary. For others, though, the months of seclusion led them to search for ways they might be able to make the world just a little better place than it was before. Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.

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Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, Critical Race Theory is the practice of interrogating race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship.

These charts cast a fresh light on perceptions that protests against racism and police brutality have been violent.

A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.

The inspirational rail worker won the Samaritans Lifesaver Award for his efforts to prevent sui

A Carson native is encouraging men to join him

In a viral thread, a Twitter user explains why it might not always be a good idea to report suicidal behavior on Twitter.

At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.

Why do we leave millions of people in poverty? The answer should make us uncomfortable.

Even in cities known for providing transgender services, trans people report myriad barriers in getting mental health services, experts say.

COVID-19 helped reveal how racism, financial strain, and weight stigma can powerfully affect mental health.

LEXINGTON, MA—Impatiently scanning store shelves while tersely repeating requests for an inventory of clothing and other items that would be taken along, local mother Susan Vernon, 51, channeled her escalating fears regarding her daughter leaving for college later this month into a fight about storage bins, sources…

It can't supply absolute truths about the world, but it brings us steadily closer

To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like the perfect weapon.

Lawsuits and studies cast light on wide use of physical restraints and long confinements in Japan’s vast mental health system.

GLENDALE, PA—Expressing embarrassment and disappointment over being the son of such a loser, local 4-year-old Connor Heyward was convinced Friday that his father, Craig, was a moron after losing 45 consecutive games of hide-and-seek. “Christ, this is bad. I’ve hid behind that bush a dozen times and this dumbass still…

They condition their members to see themselves as soldiers at war with the public they are meant to serve, and above the laws they are meant to enforce.

"I just want my life back," the 39-year-old pop star said in a rare virtual court appearance.

Doctors need mental health support. Here’s why many aren’t getting it.

The US has a long history of forced sterilization campaigns that were driven by the bogus ‘science’ of eugenics, racism and sexism.

A journey to one of the darkest sides of humanity's attempts to measure the human mind and put people in boxes.