Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness of offenders. Despite... Read more »
On January 1, 1804, the generals of the Armée Indigène, or Indigenous Army, declared independence from France and created Haiti, the first abolitionist state in the Americas. They swore an oath to... Read more »
“When you travel as a girl, you don’t learn anything about the world. All you learn is that there’s a way of looking at the world that doesn’t belong to you,” says twentysomething... Read more »
The trial of the man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie has been postponed because of the publication of the author’s memoir about the attack. A lawyer representing Hadi Matar, who was charged... Read more »
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Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Rivka Galchen reads her story “Crown Heights North,” from the... Read more »
January 9, 2024 • Institute Update The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the non-profit organization The Many Brains Project partnered with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us... Read more »
A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of “rough justice”: the use of force to settle accounts and... Read more »
The first land to be colonized in the Americas was Haiti. Europeans first enslaved native Americans and captive Africans there, too. But the first permanent abolition of slavery also happened on Haiti,... Read more »