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Cover StoryMental health in the US: New ideas on care emergeMass shootings by mentally unstable people have focused attention on the inadequacies of the US mental health care system, in which less than half of the seriously ill can get treatment.- Share of young adults living with their parents hits four-decade highDeclining employment, rising college enrollment, and declining marriage rates among Millennials appear to be behind the trend, which was studied by the Pew Research Center.
Why Rolling Stone boycott backfired, as Tsarnaev cover flies off shelvesThe lesson in retailers' boycott of Rolling Stone's August issue – featuring Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – is that publicity of almost any kind pays, say media analysts. The magazine saw its newsstand sales surge.
Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner: Why women are tiring of 'good wife' imageHuma Abedin was at the side of her husband Anthony Weiner again this week, but women are beginning to see the pageantry of spousal support amid sex scandals as a blow to their dignity.
Who are America's immigrant kids? Not who you think, study suggests.A new study suggests that, in some ways, children of immigrants actually do better than peers with native-born parents – and that 90 percent of them are here legally. But troubling indicators remain.
Trayvon Martin case: Polls reveal depth of racial divideTwo polls conducted after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin reaffirm the dramatic divide between white and black Americans, including over whether the trial raised urgent issues.
Cory Monteith overdose spotlights surge in heroin addiction and deathThe number of heroin addictions and deaths among young people, many of whom previously abused prescription drugs, has risen dramatically, experts say. Cory Monteith battled addiction for years.
Tsarnaev on Rolling Stone cover: Rock-star treatment or good journalism?The Aug. 1 Rolling Stone cover has been harshly criticized for featuring what many are calling a glamorous photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
Progress WatchYouth homicide rate hits 30-year low, but it's not good news for everyoneThe homicide rate for individuals aged 10 to 24 was 7.5 per 100,000 young people in 2010, according to a new study. Overall however, declines in the rate have slowed since 2000.
Progress WatchCocaine use: Will the factors behind its steady decline continue?The US government released more good news this month about impeding entry of cocaine into the country. Still, opinions vary when it comes to interpreting the overall cocaine-use decline and the possible reasons for it.
Zimmerman trial: Did wall-to-wall media coverage inform, or entertain?While some say the extensive media coverage of the George Zimmerman trial provided a civics lesson to the US public, others saw a play for ratings that did little to address key issues in the case.
Cleveland strong: 3 women, once kidnapped, thank supportersIn a video, three Cleveland women, kidnapped and held captive for about a decade, thank the public and the Cleveland Courage Fund, which has raised more than $1 million to help them start anew.
Immigration and assimilation: Feeling global, but being an AmericanMohammed Raziuddin an Indian high-tech professional came to the US for an education and ended up becoming an American citizen. Though he feels like he fits in here, he still feels like a citizen of the world, not just America.
Cover StoryImmigration: Assimilation and the measure of an AmericanImmigration reform, making its way through Congress, and the Boston Marathon bombings – allegedly committed by two Chechen immigrants – has raised heated debate about how we measure the assimilation of newcomers civically, culturally, economically, and even patriotically.
Immigration and assimiliation: Immigrant roots, but made in AmericaManuel Weintraub's is a story from the 'melting-pot' Century: The son of Austrian and Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, he grew up and ran the family deli in a Jewish immigrant enclave – but he feels so American that the question of assimilation is almost a non-sequitur for him.
Immigration and assimilation: Soccer and prom are part of her American-nessBrenda Calderon, whose Guatemalan family was finally reunited with their father in North Carolina when she was 7, measures her American-ness in proms, soccer, and sleepovers – things she couldn't do back home but discovered here.
Immigration and assimilation: Finding a cultural foothold ... in a gangAlex Sanchez, an undocumented Salvadoran who couldn't find stability in the mainstream as a youth, found unity in a gang. After a long struggle, he has become an internationally known peacemaker and gang interventionist.
Immigration and assimilation: After dislocation, a Hmong refugee finds a fitKouei Siong, who has returned to his family's California farm with dreams of upgrading the business, sees himself as not just Hmong, but Hmong-American.
Gay Pride 2013: Supreme Court gives extra reason to celebrateGay Pride parades and other celebrations are happening all around the US this weekend. They're an annual event, but last week's US Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage have added to the enthusiasm.
Cover StoryThe bike boomAmericans are using bicycles for transportation and recreation in record numbers as the fitness and green movements, as well as high energy costs, spur a two-wheel revolution.
