As predicted, there have been some hostile responses to today’s US Supreme Court ruling striking down state bans on gay marriage. Many of those are coming from Republican presidential candidates, who argue that the ruling jeopardizes religious freedom and states rights.
Michael Wood, Jr. served in the Baltimore police department for 11 years, including time as a detective and sergeant. He left the department in early 2014, more than a year before black Baltimore resident Freddie Gray died after being held and allegedly mistreated in police custody.
Americans are getting more obese, according to a new analysis from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Americans think that protestors make the country better. As a whole though, they’re less likely to think that if the protestors are black.
More good news for America’s MBA students, who are now more likely to see starting salaries of $125,000 or more.
Last week, Brandeis University professor Chad Williams saw countless news stories and social media conversations about the shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in which a white man allegedly killed nine black people. What he did not see was historical context.
Parents of talented children often go to great lengths to ensure that their budding concert violinist or champion skier reaches full potential. But are there specific efforts parents make that help drive their children’s success?
HBO late night host John Oliver weighed in yesterday (June 21) on the Confederate flag debate that’s been rekindled after a white man allegedly killed nine black people in a South Carolina church, one of whom was a state senator. Some said the flag near the state’s capitol should be lowered to half staff. Other said the flag should be taken down altogether.
First came the new coffee shops—two of them—in 2009. Newcomers had been trickling in for a few years, but that’s when the gentrification of New York’s Crown Heights began to attract wider attention (paywall). Next up: The hipster bars, the fancy pizza, the new real estate brokers, all speaking to the neighborhood’s transformation. Twenty-four years ago, this Brooklyn neighborhood was the scene of ugly race riots, fueled by long-simmering tensions between black and Jewish residents. But by 2012, the area had become typical of the gentrification that’s overtaking so many of the world’s largest cities as they assume the mantle of economic growth drivers.
From 1973 until 2012, a total of 66 black American women earned physics doctorates—mostly PhD’s—in US colleges. During that same amount of time, 22,172 white men earned their doctorates.
The American comedian Jon Stewart had nothing funny to say last night (June 18). Instead he talked about the mass shooting in which a white man killed nine people in a historical black church in South Carolina.
If Wall Street interns are like overworked Cinderellas, Goldman Sachs is the fairy godmother this year, telling its investment banking interns to leave before the clock strikes midnight.
As summer solstice approaches, a familiar story is coming out of China. For the past few years, animal rights activists in China and around the world have protested the Yulin dog festival, in which thousands of dogs are slaughtered and eaten. Because the dog meat trade is not heavily regulated, it’s hard to know how many dogs are actually slaughtered, but estimates are in the thousands.
A major fear about legalizing medical marijuana in the US has been that it would make the drug more accessible for young people to use recreationally.
Late-night comedian John Oliver’s rant this week lambasts the US entertainment industry for its portrayals of torture, blaming Hollywood—and in particular the Fox show 24—for misinforming Americans about the effectiveness of torturing prisoners.
Following a year of skepticism, it is once again accurate to say that one in five women in college in the US experience sexual assault.
Nobel Prize winner and scientist Tim Hunt spoke out earlier this week about how having women work in a lab can be problematic. Since, you know, those women scientists will probably fall in love with you, or vice versa. Or they’ll cry when you critique them.
Lauren Johnson found out she was pregnant a week before she was arrested for drug possession. She was in jail by the time she gave birth to her son in 2004, and spent three days with him at hospital. It was five months before she saw him again, when he came with her aunt to visit Johnson in the state prison where she was serving her sentence.
Michelle Obama spoke to the high school graduating class of Chicago’s King College Prep School earlier this week. The school, on the city’s south side, won a video challenge that brought the US first lady back to her hometown to deliver a commencement address.
No matter the venue, everybody knows the line for the women’s bathroom is always longer. Unless, of course you’re at a tech conference. Then the women’s nonexistent restroom line is a literal—if not very funny–punchline for an event that still mostly involves dudes. Exhibit A: Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, held this year from June 8 to June 12 in San Francisco.
HBO’s late night host John Oliver has by now become a trendsetter for US political talk. The comedian’s latest target is the US bail system, which over the last few decades has effectively kept low-income defendants in jails and prisons before they have their day in court, while allowing wealthy Americans to pay their way to freedom.
Police in Texas are investigating an officer after a video was posted on YouTube that shows him detaining a teenage girl at a pool party on June 5.
Barnard College, an all-women school that is part of Columbia University, will be the latest US college to accept transgender women, it announced today.
“So many people go through life and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are. Ours happen to be gender identity,” Caitlyn Jenner says as the screen shows footage of Southern California, and of Jenner applying lip gloss in front of a mirror.
