Archive for April 2025

Seventeen men died in Welsh prisons last year. Their tragic deaths highlight the problems with Wales’s lack of a judiciary.

Cold and damp homes are having a big impact on children, a poll from the Social Workers Union has found. The union is calling on the government to fund public services and upgrade homes to keep children from living in unsuitable housing

In a decade-long multi-institutional study, U of A psychologists teamed up with Radboud University in the Netherlands to develop a precision treatment approach for depression that gives patients individualized recommendations based on multiple characteristics, such as age and gender.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:The social media company Meta gained an injunction against a former employee this week. She is now banned from discussing her criticism of the company. But before that injunction, Sarah Wynn-Williams recorded an interview with NPR. …. Why do you call the book “Careless People”?

SARAH WYNN-WILLIAMS: Because it’s true.

INSKEEP: In what way are they careless?

WYNN-WILLIAMS: The smallest and biggest ways. Little things, like how many people who worked at the social media company that wouldn’t let their own children on the service, through to really big things like working with the Chinese Communist Party to build a censorship tool to meet their specifications

The new voucher-style tax credits have major differences from the grants lawmakers killed. The tax credits are off-limits to public school students, while the grants went predominantly to this group. And there’s limited state oversight on how the private education tax credits will be used, while the grants to public school families were only allowed to be spent with state-approved educational vendors.

Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good.

American ideas about research and higher education, including academic freedom, are globally influential. Its research universities dominate international rankings. The list goes on. However, America’s global academic leadership is coming to an abrupt end. This article points out the important reasons why this is taking place.