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Our young people are sending us a message. Are we listening?

Teen takeovers are not simply acts of defiance. They may also be telling us that too many young people are searching for connection, purpose, and the warmth of a village they have yet to experience, writes Dennis W. Boyd, Jr.

Foster care, in CT and elsewhere, is getting a bad rap

There is no doubt that foster care sometimes falls short. But rhetoric from both ends of the political spectrum – calling non-relative placements ‘stranger care’, dismissing residential settings as unnecessary, and claiming children are removed because of poverty — is both inaccurate and counterproductive, writes Sarah Font.

A scientist’s ‘a-ha moment’

Alex Quillin, PhD ’25, talks about the day she looked through the microscope and realized what she and her fellow students discovered.


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Policing Patients

Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis

Stolen Representation

Black Disfranchisement and State Legislative Politics in the American South