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Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

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From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.

Minneapolis civil rights leaders are demanding firing of police officers after seeing body cam footage from Jaleel Stallings trial.

Lockups use unreliable tests to claim that lawyers are sending drugs to their clients behind bars.

Prosectors in Oklahoma successfully argued to a jury this month that a woman who had a miscarriage was guilty of the manslaughter of her non-viable fetus.

Is “people pleasing” really a trauma response?

After a violent week of fighting in school at Southwood High School, a group of dads decided to take matters into their own hands.

Internal documents suggest Facebook has long known its algorithms and recommendation systems push some users to extremes.

The school founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for breaking its moral code, say former students. An official who says he was fired for raising concerns calls it a “conspiracy of silence.”

Some college applicants do lie about their race, survey finds.

In a national survey, we dug into how teachers use language to make sense of disparities in student outcomes by race and income level.

Facebook engineers gave extra value to emoji reactions, including "angry," pushing more emotional and provocative content into users’ news feeds.

In the wake of a particularly messy breakup and the stinging pain of the loss of my father, I went through a life-altering bout of depression in 2016. It wasn’t just the many days and weeks where I couldn’t get out of bed, but suicidal ideation and…

Faculty members accused of misconduct are often allowed to leave with their reputations intact and resume the same behavior at other institutions—at the expense of students.

We need women to work, and we need working women to have babies. So why is America one of the only countries in the world that offers no national paid leave to new working mothers? In this incisive talk, Jessica Shortall makes the impassioned case that the reality of new working motherhood in America is both hidden and horrible: millions of women, every year, are forced back to work within just weeks of giving birth. Her idea worth spreading: the time has come for us to recognize the economic, physical and psychological costs of our approach to working mothers and their babies, and to secure our economic future by providing paid leave to all working parents.

Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.

Fans screamed for help and made pleas to "stop the show" amid a crowd surge during Travis Scott’s Astroworld Fest set Friday night.

“You can’t call a police officer to escort this student away from you when you have conflict. You have to figure out what it means to manage conflict with this person — or [to] utilize other adults who love them.”

The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe carcinogens. ProPublica reveals where these places are in a first-of-its-kind map and data analysis.

When dating interracially, some Black people say that code-switching, a common practice of adapting the way they look, speak or act in different social settings, comes as second nature.

The behavior is necessary for advancement — but it takes a great psychological toll.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, thousands of Asian Americans have reported being harassed or assaulted.

Family leave should be a right, not a privilege.

Why don't we take the mental health needs of pregnant and postpartum people seriously?

Lawmakers in Washington have spent months now negotiating legislation to address climate change and other environmental issues, and it is still not clear what t…

In June, three Florida prison guards who boasted of being white supremacists beat, pepper sprayed and used a stun gun on an inmate who screamed “I can’t breathe!” at a prison near the Alabama border, according to a fellow inmate who reported it to the state.

Researchers proposed a fix to the biased algorithm, but one internal document predicted pushback from “conservative partners.”