Tag: mental health
Lawmakers and advocates support nationwide social media warning labels to address...
A push to advance social media warning label legislation is slated to expand in California, Minnesota, New York and Texas in 2026.
This mental health awareness month
Simple actions in the present make it more likely that such services will be launched in the future.
Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack...
This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.
Global conflicts shatter childhoods: Record number of children living in war...
2024 marked an unprecedented crisis for children globally, with record numbers displaced, malnourished, and deprived of basic rights due to escalating conflicts.
Meet the collective offering an alternative to the ‘mental health industrial...
The Fireweed Collective offers online and in-person healing.
Albuquerque is throwing out the belongings of homeless people, violating city...
As a result, thousands of homeless people have lost personal property, according to interviews with community advocates, service providers and those who have had their possessions discarded.
Blaming mass shootings on mental illness doesn’t address either issue
Misconceptions and stigmas: the complex intersection of mental health and gun violence.
Why society is increasingly turning to community schools to address the...
The struggles of a rural school district in New Mexico illustrate how educators and parents believe they know what will work—if only they can get policy leaders to support it.
Utah enacts social media measures to protect minors online
The two regulations come as parents and lawmakers are concerned over social media use and mental health.
Mental health illness: a global tragedy by design
The world we are living in, with its constant noise, demands and pressures; the destructive ideologies, divisions and unjust systems, works against such inner quiet and mental well-being.
POPULAR
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."