Teen Violence

5 Steps To End Girl Fights And Teen Violence

Courtney Macavinta | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living


Courtney Macavinta

If you're scratching your head in disgust about the level of violence among teens--and the online "bragging rights" that follow--good. Now is not the time to get desensitized.

Chicago, Obama, the Olympics, and the Murder of Derrion Albert

Kevin Powell | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago


Kevin Powell

Chicago does not deserve the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. What the people of Chicago deserve is a domestic Marshall Plan -- an action agenda that will, once and for all, deal with the city's problems.

Coral Gables High School Stabbing: Student Fatally Wounded

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home


MIAMI — One student stabbed another to death during a fight Tuesday in a courtyard at their suburban high school, authorities said. School offi...

What Comes After Abstinence-Only: Advocates Urge White House and Congress to Broaden Teen Pregnancy Initiative

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


Jodi Jacobson

Far more must be done to address teen sexuality, prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and to prevent the violence and coercion by intimate partners.

Britain's Mean Teens

Time | Catherine Mayer | Posted 04.05.2008 | Living


Staying home in the face of danger isn't the British way. After suicide bombings in July 2005, Londoners continued working and socializing. Yet a surv...