The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh, a Buddhist-influenced Japanese dance. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation.

Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

A 13-year-old girl was declared brain-dead, but her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

Bobby Hadid joined the NYPD after 9/11, to protect his new country. But when he questioned the force’s tactics, his life began to erode.

DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country. The patients, doctors say, seem to have lost the will to live.

As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to face his future.

A profile of Martha Nussbaum, whose ideas illuminate the often ignored elements of human life—aging, inequality, and emotion.

Immigrant nannies leave their own children behind to care for others’.

What America owes those it takes in.

The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.

The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse, his tight-knit Brooklyn community turned on him.

Why Parks Middle School decided to cheat.

How the Newtown Bee covered Sandy Hook.

After Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes said that a widely used herbicide was harmful, its maker launched an attack on him.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.