Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.
The juvenile justice system was designed to “hide youthful errors from the full gaze of the public.” But the extra penalties attached to these sentences have ruined many lives.
Its prophet is Joseph Schumpeter, and the signs of its times will be written in rising international production, falling interest rates, and propitious demographic patterns
Vermont has some of the most progressive wage-and-hour laws in the country, but low-income workers are still struggling.
More and more American adults are sharing their homes with people other than family members or spouses—an arrangement that can be anywhere from harmonious to downright hostile.
The status quo is a catastrophe