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President Lyndon Johnson set up the Kerner Commission in the late 1960s to investigate the underlying causes of nationwide riots (Newark...

What's a gay youth to do faced by an increasingly hostile social environment brought on by the Trump election? The Southern Poverty La...

The human brain has developed over millenia. Like a non-stop power plant, the brain added new structures to basic ones (controlling basi...

Thanksgiving marks the start of the trifecta of holidays that spike anxiety in LGBT youth and adults of all ages. In this excerpt from Hea...

Growing up, many of us heard of Radio Free Europe, an attempt to reach those behind the "Iron Curtain." Here's some informat...

From our new book, Healing the Brain, we look at the danger from concussions and CTE. Parents need to decide whether to allow their child...

Parents worry whether their children can resist the temptation of drug addiction. What's at stake and what are the risk factors your ch...