Eric Shear

Dr. Azadeh Khatibi grew up in Tehran in the early 1980s. Her father wanted sons; he got two daughters. “He was like, ‘What is their future going to be like?’” she says.

In January, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s chief diversity officer sent an email announcing the “Diversity Word of the Month”—privilege.

Hung Cao and Marty Hierholzer both live in Virginia, only a few hours from each other. They have different backgrounds: Hung is of Vietnamese descent; Marty is white.

This year, California Legislators tried to create new criminal penalties for parents who “harass” school board officials or disrupt school board meetings.

The birth of a child is a sacred experience in a mother’s life. How and where she chooses to bring her baby into the world is a deeply personal decision that should be free from government interference.

In the mid-nineties, Jerry Thompson was headhunted for a Texas company that paid good money. He was a whiz at sales. So he moved his wife, Theresa, and two kids from Michigan to Texas.

Imagine you are a young child living in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. You are brought into a crowded meetinghouse where two magistrates—both commanding older men who serve on the council of Massachusetts Bay Colony—are waiting to interrogate you in front of an angry audience.

Three days earlier, Sarah, a Ph.D. student in Waltham, Massachusetts, had taken her three-month-old baby, Cal, to the emergency room after his fever spiked to 103.6 degrees. At the hospital, doctors ordered x-rays to rule out bronchiolitis and discovered Cal had two partially healed rib fractures. Neither Sarah nor Josh had any idea how the rib fractures happened. When the hospital social worker talked to Sarah about the injury, Sarah was more concerned about Cal’s fever—he did have bronchiolitis, it turned out. The social worker probed the family’s home life, asking Sarah if her husband “often ignored” their children. She didn’t like Sarah’s response.

Dana’s son displayed concerning behavior from a very young age. It was a lot for Dana to handle—and she also had two other children. She reached out to services that provide “respite care”: part-time help for parents and other caregivers who need occasional breaks. Respite care is a game changer for parents of special needs children. A good respite caregiver can make a struggling mom feel like she’s not alone.

When CODA won Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards, viewers were surprised. CODA is a quiet film about a deaf fishing family in Massachusetts. It stars an unknown lead actress and was made for under $10 million—a paltry budget, by Hollywood standards. Yet it beat out slick, star-studded movies like Dune, The Power of the Dog, and Don’t Look Up.

Jackson had been a U.S. Supreme Court Justice since 1941. But at the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman asked Jackson to take a leave of absence from the Court to serve as chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders

Shouting could be heard just outside the Supreme Court one Thursday afternoon in June, as two groups of protestors gathered in response to the Justices’ latest ruling.