How One Community Reformed Its Police and Cut Its Crime Rate
Community groups, activists, and local media helped turned Camden, New Jersey, into a model of police reform and crime reduction.
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Community groups, activists, and local media helped turned Camden, New Jersey, into a model of police reform and crime reduction.
Addressing suicide and mental illness needs to go beyond treating individual minds to broader social programs and policies.
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A Q&A with Jazmin Pichardo and Beth Douthirt-Cohen about embodied ways to stay connected during painful conversations.
New research reveals that shifting between abstract and concrete thinking can help us prepare for unexpected events.
We talk with Claude M. Steele about his new book, Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It.
While there are high-level critics of diversity today, research finds that diversity is good for society—and it has a long history of supporters.