The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) will allocate up to £300,000 ($379,000) in extra funding for “drunk tanks” to treat intoxicated revelers around the holiday season.
One of 2018’s most memorable political photographs came to us courtesy of the G7 Leaders Summit in Canada. The picture captured European and other world leaders standing across a table from a seated, unimpressed-looking Donald Trump.
As the holiday season approaches, many parents are deciding what kinds of toys to get their kids—and the American Academy of Pediatrics has some ideas. In recently-released guidelines, two scientists from the AAP’s Council on Early Childhood outline which types of toys can help children develop important emotional and cognitive skills, and which to avoid.
The New York Times editorial board recently declared that “Paris is burning.” And to a certain extent, that’s true. For the past three weeks, protesters known as “yellow vests” have staged sometimes-violent riots across France. What began as a movement against a hike in carbon taxes has now turned into a general expression of working- and middle-class discontent against globalization and government. Some protesters have burned cars, looted stores, assaulted journalists, and defaced public monuments, leading to millions of euros in damage, countless arrests, and three deaths.
Parents often name their babies after the things they love—from characters in movies, reality TV, and video games right down to their favorite foods.
France is a country that’s no stranger to protest movements—from the massive student demonstrations of 1968 to contemporary union-led strikes. But during the “yellow vest” protests that rocked the streets of Paris this weekend, protesters reached further back in their history, to the era of the French Revolution.
For the past two weeks, a massive protest movement known as the “yellow vests” has shaken France. While the movement began as a way for low-income people to voice their anger at the government’s efforts to target car pollution with a heavy carbon tax, it has now spiraled into an ongoing, at-times violent expression of general dissatisfaction with president Emmanuel Macron, as well as France’s political system and labor laws.
This weekend, people around the world were shocked to see images of children being tear-gassed by US law enforcement officials. Hundreds of asylum-seekers from Central America had been leading a peaceful protest at the border with Mexico when some protestors tried to breach the border fence, prompting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to fire tear gas into the crowd.
If you’ve had kids—or are considering having them—you’ve probably heard the mantra “breast is best.” A majority of doctors, along with every major medical group in the US, recommends that moms breastfeed babies exclusively for at least the first six months of their lives. And most major studies show that there are substantive physical and socio-emotional benefits to breastfeeding, for both infants and mothers (paywall).
With the too-frequently conflicting pressures of career and home eating up most hours of the day for working parents, having a job while raising a family can feel like a long, lonely endeavor carried out at a continuously frantic pace—especially in the United States, which consistently ranks lowest among OECD countries in terms of work-life balance for families. The stress can be isolating, whether you’re doing it all on your own or are part of a two-career household.
For the past 27 days, a small Protestant church in The Hague has been conducting round-the-clock religious services to protect an Armenian refugee family from deportation.
Will Haskell is 22. He’s thinking about going to law school. But first he has to complete his term as Connecticut’s youngest state senator.
More than a quarter-million French people took to the streets on Saturday (Nov. 17) to protest a rise in fuel prices tied to the government’s new carbon tax. Wearing the yellow vests required in every vehicle in France in case of a road accident, protesters attempted to block major thoroughfares across the country in order to draw attention to a list of grievances that coalesced around calls for president Emmanuel Macron’s resignation.
Several thousand people blocked five iconic London bridges today (Nov. 17) to protest government inaction on climate change, as part of a month-long campaign of mass civil disobedience planned by a group known as Extinction Rebellion.
Every year, millions of babies are born too early, putting them at risk of serious health complications and even death. And in many places, the problem is getting worse. So, on World Prematurity Day today (Nov. 17), international organizations and activists are drawing attention to the causes and possible solutions of preterm births, in the hopes of tackling what has become the leading cause of death in children under five globally.
American voters sent a record number of women to Congress in this year’s midterm elections. While that’s a historic win for gender equality in politics, the crop of new legislators is not immune to the everyday challenges that women face in the workplace. Those hurdles, as this week’s uproar over New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demonstrated, include getting judged based on what you wear.
Even preschoolers don’t get enough exercise in America.
The American college campus is in crisis—at least, that’s what a coterie of recent essays, books, podcasts, and comments from politicians would have you believe. The claim is that ”political correctness” is stifling fair-minded intellectual debate, particularly from the right, and making universities inhospitable to free thinkers, iconoclasts, and anyone who values freedom of expression and diversity of thought.
Twenty years ago, Michelle Obama had a miscarriage. Now the former US first lady is going public about her experience in an effort to let other women who’ve gone through the same thing know that they’re not alone.
On Nov. 11, Europeans will celebrate the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I. Military parades, speeches, and concerts, will commemorate the day Allied powers huddled with a German delegation to end the four years of fighting that left about 40 million people dead or injured and laid the foundation for World War II.
The European Commission is known for being circumspect when forecasting the economic prospects of EU member countries. In fact, it is a great fan of using words like “moderate,” “muted,” and “gradual” in its assessments. But in 2017, the forecasters perked up, announcing the start of a long-awaited economic recovery across much of the EU (the word “brightening” even made an appearance).
Every year, hundreds of young children in the United Kingdom are getting surgery that they don’t need.
Parents looking to get their kids engaged in civic life will have plenty of talking points this morning. This year’s midterm elections in the US featured a number of landmark moments, from the election of over 100 women to the House of Representatives to the country’s first openly gay governor in Colorado and the first Muslim and Native American women elected to Congress. At the same time, the dramatic run-up to the elections—featuring inflammatory rhetoric, incidents of politically-motivated violence, accusations of voter suppression and unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud—suggests the US remains deeply polarized. And with Congress now split between a Republican Senate and a Democratic House, the next two years are likely to feature even more political clashes.
New research has shown that while women in the US have cut back on alcohol and cigarette use during pregnancy in recent years, they have increasingly shifted to another vice—cannabis.
