While there is a lot that we can do to increase our own well-being, our social and political environments play an important role in our happiness, too. In particular, research suggests that supportive ...

For Kaye, social justice comes out of the tradition of Dorothy Day, a Catholic convert who helped establish a movement that combined aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent social action on ...

19 February 2025 - In recent years, the term "social justice" has become a significant part of public discourse, often invoked in discussions about equality, human rights, and societal reforms. But ...

Today's New York Times questions whether standardized, intelligence tests should be relied upon so heavily for admission to universities. In my training as a clinical psychologist in the 1980s, I ...

Columbia University has had more than its share of free-speech controversies over the last academic year, including a student melee that ended a speech by the founder of the Minuteman Project and a ...

Having become late in life a college professor — thus regularly spending time on a university campus after three-plus decades — I’m discovering the academic environment has changed from my times as an ...

Disparate, strongly held views on how to attain social justice and overcome inequitable systems of power are ripping many nonprofit organizations apart. Instead of aligning our aims, assets, and ...

Although documentaries come in all shapes in sizes, it seems the ones that the most talked-about docs are those that focus on social justice. Whether investigating issues of race, gender, income, ...

This glossary is not intended to be an exhaustive list of every word and term used in our conversations about diversity and social justice. Because of the way language works especially around these ...

Today's New York Times questions whether standardized, intelligence tests should be relied upon so heavily for admission to universities. In my training as a clinical psychologist in the 1980s, I ...