Social Issues

#NotInvisible: Why are Native American women vanishing?
In the era of #MeToo, the issue is gaining political traction as an expanding activist movement focuses on Native women -- a population known to experience some of the nation's highest rates of murder, sexual violence and domestic abuse.
Lawyer for homeless man says $400,000 raised to help him is gone
Johnny Bobbitt claims he has only received $75,000 of the GoFundMe money raised to get him off the streets. The rest, he argues, has been mismanaged and spent by the couple who pledged to help him.
Her humanitarian missions became a way of life
An incident in a Turkish marketplace led Lindsey Smith to leave her comfortable life as a geriatric nurse practitioner from Minneapolis to help people in crisis around the world.
Father of slain Iowa student decries using her as 'pawn'
The father of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts in a Saturday opinion piece spoke out against using his daughter's death in support of "views she believed were profoundly racist."
Drag Queen Story Hour sparks protests in conservative towns
Drag Queen Story Hours have been held at libraries or book stores in big cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and the Twin Cities. In some smaller communities, however, the programs have sparked protests from conservative and religious groups.
Elite wildland firefighters are the pride of the Blackfeet Reservation
No drinking, no drugs, no tardiness, and they have to run a seven-minute mile. They're the Chief Mountain Hotshots, the all-Native firefighting crew from Montana's Blackfeet Reservation.
5 proven benefits of play
The nation's doctors are being enlisted in a new fight: reclaiming children's right to play. A research paper urges pediatricians to prescribe playtime.
Parents of twins run higher risk of depression than other new parents
Expectant parents of twins and other multiples may be ready for the joy and extra physical demands of caring for more than one baby. But few know the risk of depression and anxiety runs higher, too.