How Liberals And Conservatives Think Differently
Republicans and democrats don't see eye-to-eye on many issues. But why? National Journal's Brian Resnick has the biological answer.For more, read National Journal's "How Politics Breaks Our Brains, and...
View ArticleHow Scientists See the Differences in Liberal and Conservative Brains
We're partisans by nature, and once we pick a side we see the world in red or blue. But how do political psychologists actually measure that? National Journal's Brian Resnick volunteers his brain in a...
View ArticleWhy Des Moines Can Be a Model for Urban Schools
DES MOINES, Iowa—Parju Rai finishes her quiz on integers with ease, putting her pencil down as Amelia Mieth, an eighth-grade teacher, calls time. Rai and her family arrived in the United States just...
View ArticleThe People Who Can't Take Advantage of the Des Moines Housing Boom
DES MOINES, Iowa—We're standing in a trendy one-bedroom apartment with polished concrete floors, modern appliances, and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over downtown. The surrounding neighborhood...
View ArticleDo the Most Hipster Thing Possible - Move to Des Moines
DES MOINES, Iowa—This is too nice a place to spawn a war cry. But if the city had one, it would be the sentiment heard across a downtown populated by baristas, tech start-up founders, musicians, and...
View ArticleIs New Orleans Trying to Deport Undocumented Workers Now That the Rebuilding...
NEW ORLEANS--"Who wants to be the mayor?" Fernando Lopez asks a group of more than 300 Central American workers gathered in a church gym near the Lower Ninth Ward.No one raises a hand.Lopez, an...
View ArticleThe Last Benevolent Club Left in New Orleans Keeps Jazz Funerals Rollin'
New Orleans—It would take more than a hurricane to end the city's spirited second-line parades and jazz funerals. Sure, there are fewer social aid and pleasure clubs putting on the famous brass-band...
View ArticleIs This the End of the Line for Louisiana's Vietnamese Shrimpers?
VENICE, La.—On a two-net trawler at the mouth of the Mississippi River, a Vietnamese shrimping crew burns fake money and incense. The captain, Phuoc Nguyen, throws rainbow-colored candies into the...
View ArticleThe Strangest Things to Come Between Your Brain and the Ballot
What does it say about democracy when a bunch of schoolchildren in Switzerland can predict the outcome of the American presidential election just by looking at pictures of the candidates?It could mean...
View ArticleMeet the First Undocumented Med-School Student at UC San Francisco
San Francisco -- College advisers didn't know what to say to Jirayut Latthivongskorn. The premed student was about to graduate from the University of California (Berkeley) and he wanted to go to...
View ArticleDoctors Without Documents
College advisers didn't know what to say to Jirayut Latthivongskorn. The pre-med student was about to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, and he wanted to go to medical school. But...
View ArticleThe Culture Clash in Mississippi's Mosques
Jackson, Mississippi—An African-American imam leads Friday prayer in Arabic at a mosque in Jackson. Not so many years ago, most of the Muslim worshippers here were blacks who "reverted" to Islam during...
View ArticleAmerica's Largest Black Boarding School Sends 97 Percent of Students to College
PINEY WOODS, Miss.—"Those who think they can't are usually right," reads a sign in the grass outside the girls' dormitory at Piney Woods Country Life School."Success Depends Upon Yourself" is carved...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things Is So Easy, We Built Our Own
"The Internet of Things." I love this phrase; it seems simultaneously simple and impossibly high tech. "Big Data," another hot topic of our day, sounds as unapproachable as it probably is. But the...
View ArticleThe Detroit Entrepreneurs You Never Hear About
DETROIT—Corporate investment is reviving parts of downtown Detroit, but the rest of the city's future may rest in the hands of low-income entrepreneurs. A growing number of immigrants and...
View ArticleAtlanta's Own High Line May Finally Erase Some Racial Divisions
In Atlanta, change sounds like a squeaky bike chain.When Rebecca Serna heard the falsetto choir of rusted bikes, recently dusted off from forgotten garage corners, she knew the BeltLine was working....
View ArticleHistoric Atlanta Is Dead. Can These Young Creatives Revive It?
ATLANTA—A goateed man named Klimchak chants, accompanying himself with beats on the bowl that he's using to mash up chickpeas to make enough hummus for the 20 self-described creative refugees in his...
View ArticleThe Golden Glove Fighters From Another Massachusetts Mill Town
Lawrence, Massachusetts—Lawrence doesn't get a lot of good publicity. It's known as the "Ghetto of Massachusetts," and it is one of the poorest cities in America. It's also a heroin den.Now two young...
View ArticleThis Cambodian Monk Is Building A Mini Angkor Wat in Lowell, Massachusetts
LOWELL, Massachusetts—Robed monks are a common, if still unexpected, sight in this old Massachusetts mill town. They are among the thousands of survivors of the Cambodian genocide in the late 1970s,...
View ArticleThe Hmong Flower Farmers of Seattle
Seattle, Wa.--Scott Chang grew up among the tulips and irises at Pike Place Market. The 30-year-old Seattle native remembers taking naps in one of the flower stalls as a toddler while his mother sold...
View ArticleThe Hmong Flower Farmers of Seattle
Seattle, Wa.--Scott Chang grew up among the tulips and irises at Pike Place Market. The 30-year-old Seattle native remembers taking naps in one of the flower stalls as a toddler while his mother sold...
View ArticleStanding Out in a Crowd of Men
It's not easy being a woman in this oil town. Men have been arriving by the thousands in recent years to work in the nearby Bakken oil fields. In the same time period, women reported more harassment,...
View ArticleHow Do We Bring Opportunity to All Neighborhoods?
Even as Chicago brings in more development and the unemployment rate continues to fall, some community and business leaders have challenged the notion that the city is making substantial economic...
View ArticleYoung Muslims Discuss Identity Amid Trump Call for Ban
It’s hard enough to be a young person today, but establishing a sense of identity and finding a community becomes even more complicated for Muslim youth when people like Donald Trump make aggressive,...
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