L.A.

African-Americans and the Early Pueblo of Los Angeles

Preview NEVER BUILT: LOS ANGELES ~ Opens July 28th at A+D Museum -- An exhibit of plans for architecture that never got built in L.A.

18 Photos That Prove Los Angeles Has History

Viva Morrissey! -- Every year, a thousand Latino kids get together in East LA to celebrate their shared love for a depressed, celibate English pop star who’s never had a hit in America.

South L.A. Doesn't Need Saving -- Instead, the area could be a savior to a California that's pushing out its working class.

This Public Sculpture Is Inspired by 100 Recent Murders in L.A.

Ozomatli: Band of the people

Boyle Heights Activists Demand That All Art Galleries Getthe Hell Out of Their Neighborhood

Affordable Housing: Coming to Grips with a Crisis

Law, Crime and Justice

How 10-Year-Olds, Not Cops, Spearhead Gang Prevention in South L.A.

How Cops Became Soldiers: An Interview with PoliceMilitarization Expert Radley Balko

State of Equality and Justice in America: The Presumption of Guilt

Despite Grim Media Reports, Crime Rates Are Actually Down InThe U.S.

Freeway Rick Is Dreaming -- "Out of prison and on the move, the legendary crack dealer is seeking his fortune yet again."

A Pickpocket's Tale

Throwing Children in Prison Turns Out to be a Really Bad Idea

California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk -- A judge has barred his attorney from mentioning freedom of speech during his trial for vandalism.  UPDATE: Despite this, he was acquited. Note the various interests behind the trial: the mayor, the district attorney, the bank.

Facebook Hitman Highlights Organized Crime's Online Presence

How black-market OxyContin spurred a town's descent into crime, addiction and heartbreak -- the town they're talking about is Everett, WA. The Oxycontin came up from LA, and More than 1 million OxyContin pills ended up in the hands ofcriminals and addicts. What the drugmaker knew describes how. A series of special reports from the L.A. Times.

I was a cop – but I still don't know how to survive a police stop – “Philando Castile did nothing that should have jeopardized his life, and still he died. Here’s how policing needs to change if we want to escape the nightmare.”

Biology, Human and Otherwise

Warming Climate is Changing Life on a Global Scale

Where Neuroscience is Making the Impossible, Possible

Changes in Brain Chemistry Sustain Obesity

Russians who Raised the Dead -- In the years before World War II, Russian scientists attempted to revive fish and dog heads, and even a human being.

Honey Bees Are Dying, Putting America at Risk of a Food Disaster

Tiny Submersible Could Search for Life in Europa's Ocean -- Europa is a moon of Jupiter; the ocean beneath its frozen surface is considered to be one of the most likely places for us to find extraterrestrial life.

"My 11-Grape Diet": A Model Confesses -- Anorexia among high fashion models

Medical Research: Cell Division -- In 1962, Leonard Hayflick created a cell strain from an aborted fetus. More than 50 years later, WI-38 remains a crucial, but controversial, source of cells.

UK government backs three-person IVF -- In-vitro fertilization, using DNA from three donors (mother, father, and a second woman who would be contributing mitochondria, the "power stations" within our cells that contain their on DNA) could prevent genetic diseases. But does it cross an ethical line?

Possibility Of First Head Transplant Fraught With Ethical And Medical Dilemmas

War and Peace

Revisiting the Iraq War

Quotes from "The Good War" by Studs Turkel -- "The Good War" is an Oral History of World War II, firsthand accounts of soldiers and other figures involved in the war.

Soldiers' portraits before, during and after war

George Orwell, "As I Please":  "War damages the fabric of civilization not by the destruction it causes (the net effect of a war may even be to increase the productive capacity of the world as a whole), nor even by the slaughter of human beings, but by stimulating hatred and dishonesty."

"I Am Sorry That It Has Come to This": A Soldier's Last Words -- Every day roughly 22 US veterans commit suicide. Daniel Somers's suicide note tells why.

Life of the Civil War Soldier in the Army

Out of the Cold War? -- Is it time for the United States to rethink the basic strategy it has followed since World War II?

War and the Economy

NATO agrees to reinforce eastern Poland, Baltic states against Russia

Psychology

10 Common Myths About Emotions (and Why They're Wrong)

Me! Me! Me! Are we living through a narcissism epidemic?

Confessions of a Sociopath -- who also happens to be a law professor.

What's On Your Mind? -- Neuropsychology -- the study of how the physical structures of the brain produce and regulate our consciousness -- has come a long way.

Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories

How to Analyze People -- How do you determine what a person is like quickly without getting a degree in psychology?

America's mental health care crisis: families left to fill the void of a broken system

Understand Yourself Personality Test -- (You should only write about the results whatever you feel like sharing with everybody, of course.)

What Makes Us Happy? -- the results of a lifelong (70 years +) study of 268 men's lives.

Loneliness: The Last Taboo -- Note that this is written for a slightly different audience than you (i.e., a British audience).

Photos Reveal What It's Like to Have Anxiety Issues -- The photos are by John William Keedy, who experiences anxiety issues himself.

Clues in the Cycle of Suicide

What If Mental Health First Aid Were as Widespread as CPR?New York City’s Planning to Do It

Gender and Sexuality

Six Fairy Tales for the Modern Woman

Dove Real Beauty Sketches -- How women see themselves vs. how others see them. And a response to this ad campaign.

The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap

Gender Roles -- a basic introduction.

Impossibly Beautiful -- The standards of appearance that women are judged by are often achieved through Photoshop. Follow the links to see more. Part of the Feminism 101 series.

Overcompensation Nation: It’s time to admit that toxicmasculinity drives gun violence

Animal House -- Fraternity and sports team hazing and sexual assault: a vicious cycle. Part of the Feminism 101 series.

Our Real First Gay President -- "There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet."

The culture of masculinity costs all too much to ignore

Why Don't Men Finish College As Often As Women

Ten Responses to the Phrase "Man Up" -- slam poetry by Guante

Male Psychology Basics

It's Not About the Nail

Representations of Gender in Advertising -- What happens when you switch the gender of figures in advertising.

How to Talk to Little Girls

"My 11-Grape Diet": A Model Confesses -- Anorexia among high fashion models

Women Prefer Men With Stubble, or on the "Threshold of Masculinity"

Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer: Class and the New Anti-Feminism

Why Some Evangelicals Are Trying to Stop Obsessing Over Pre-Marital Sex

This is Your Brain on Fatherhood: Dads Experience Hormonal Changes Too, Research Shows

Why do the Supreme Court's Decisions on Gay Marriage Matter to You?

If You Know Someone Who Doesn't Believe Sexism Exists, Show Them This

Are Men Evolutionarily Wired to Stay Away from Their Friends' Wives?

Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance

It Starts With a Nosebleed and Ends With a Dead Guy -- Novelist John Weir describes how his life was shaped by the loss of an enormous number of friends to the AIDS epidemic.

Girls' and Boys' Brains Respond Differently to Funny Videos