CCF Briefing
- The Myth of Testosterone
- The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation By AFSHAN JAFAR
- The American Family Makes This Country Great, and It’s in Danger By JANET MURGUÍA
- Caster Semenya, Feminist Icon?
- What ‘Good’ Dads Get Away With
- Half of People Miss Benefits of Statins
- When Anti-Immigrant Hatred Was Mainstream
- How Larry Nassar ‘Flourished Unafraid’ for So Long
- The ‘Valley Girls’ of the Rio Grande
- Over 60: Why Own When You Can Rent?
- Are Women Taking the Cosmic Fall for Male Greed?
- Becoming Catholic in the Age of Scandal
- Pentagon Survey Finds a Surge in Sexual Assaults in the Ranks
- Trump Administration Strengthens ‘Conscience Rule’ for Health Care Workers
- President Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Hurting American Children
- Pay Tuition or Eat Dinner? Nearly Half of All State College Students Go Hungry
- How to Fix the Criminal Justice System
- Where the Good Jobs Are
- Anti-Infective Drugs Tied to Eating Disorders
- The Broadway Musical Has a Man Problem
- The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting
- Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.
- We Prosecute Murder Without the Victim’s Help. Why Not Domestic Violence?
- When Is a Transplant Worth It?
- Imprisoned for Trying to Save His Son
- Sweden is going cashless
- What Number of Kids Makes Parents Happiest?
- In News Industry, a Stark Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots
- The science divide: Why do Latino and black students leave STEM majors at higher rates?
- How difficult is it to find a job in America?
- Do Married Millennials Cheat on Each Other?
- ‘Heartbeat bills’ are wholesome provocations in the abortion debate
- When to cut off financial help to adult children
- Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers
- Since 2008, Only High-Income People Have Seen Their Housing Costs Drop
- How Families With Kids Drive Suburban Segregation
- All-White Neighborhoods Are Dwindling as America Grows More Diverse
- Is Mandatory Retirement the Answer to an Aging Workforce?
- It’s Not About Sex
- Why streaming kids according to ability is a terrible idea
- A Widely Cited Statistic That Supposedly Proved Student Debt Was a Rich Person Problem Was the Result of a Coding Error
- Miss America, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Are All Black Women for the First Time
- The Myth of Testosterone
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/testosterone-caster-semenya.html
It is not the “male sex hormone,” nor is it key to athletic performance. Why do we insist otherwise?
- The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation By AFSHAN JAFAR
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/opinion/fgm-ruling-intersex-surgery.html
There’s a lot of overlap between surgery on intersex infants and female genital mutilation. So why do we view them so differently?
- The American Family Makes This Country Great, and It’s in Danger By JANET MURGUÍA
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/opinion/trump-immigration-families.html
President Trump’s stance on legal and undocumented immigrants could have devastating results.
- Caster Semenya, Feminist Icon?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/caster-semenya-running.html
I wish we heard more about women’s spectacular victories than their testosterone.
- What ‘Good’ Dads Get Away With
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/men-parenting.html
Division of labor in the home is one of the most important equity issues of our time. Yet at this rate it will be another 75 years before men do half the work.
- Half of People Miss Benefits of Statins
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/automobiles/half-of-people-miss-benefits-of-statins.html
Many people who are prescribed statins are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease because they stop taking the drugs.
- When Anti-Immigrant Hatred Was Mainstream
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/sunday/anti-immigrant-hatred-1920s.html
In the 1920s, even the president of M.I.T. supported racial restrictions at the border.
- How Larry Nassar ‘Flourished Unafraid’ for So Long
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/sports/larry-nassar-gymnastics-hbo-doc.html
A new HBO documentary explores the rise and fall of the disgraced Olympic doctor and the institutions that gave him access to girls.
- The ‘Valley Girls’ of the Rio Grande
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/us/valley-girls-rio-grande.html
Growing Up in the Borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley
- Over 60: Why Own When You Can Rent?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/realestate/over-60-renters.html
Older renters in New York City outnumber millennial renters. They also outnumber homeowners in their age range.
- Are Women Taking the Cosmic Fall for Male Greed?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/nyregion/anna-sorokin-lori-loughlin.html
The stories of Anna Sorokin, Lori Loughlin and others suggest how eager we are to exploit and punish female humiliation.
- Becoming Catholic in the Age of Scandal
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/nyregion/converting-catholics-church-scandal.html
At Easter, thousands of people converted to Catholicism even as sex abuse allegations have rocked the church.
- Pentagon Survey Finds a Surge in Sexual Assaults in the Ranks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/military-sexual-assault.html
Troops in all branches of the military, and especially women, are suffering more unwanted sexual contacts and are less likely to report them, the survey found.
- Trump Administration Strengthens ‘Conscience Rule’ for Health Care Workers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/upshot/conscience-rule-trump-religious-exemption-health-care.html
A shift in the balance between the rights of patient and provider, with religion in the middle.
- President Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Hurting American Children
An aggressive stance on legal and undocumented immigrants could have devastating results for the country.
- Pay Tuition or Eat Dinner? Nearly Half of All State College Students Go Hungry
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/nyregion/hunger-college-food-insecurity.html
Many routinely skip meals and take ‘poverty naps’ because they cannot afford groceries. Campus food pantries are helping, but are they enough?
- How to Fix the Criminal Justice System
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/opinion/the-argument-criminal-justice-reform.html
An interview with “Charged” author Emily Bazelon
- Where the Good Jobs Are
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/good-jobs-no-college-degrees.html
For people without a college degree, finding work that offers decent pay can be a challenge. The solution may require a change in scenery.
- Anti-Infective Drugs Tied to Eating Disorders
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/well/mind/anti-infective-drugs-tied-to-eating-disorders.html
The more infections or hospitalizations a girl had, the more likely she was to develop anorexia, bulimia or another eating disorder.
- The Broadway Musical Has a Man Problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/theater/broadway-musicals-gender-politics.html
From “Kiss Me, Kate” to “Tootsie,” shows old and new are working to reflect today’s gender politics. Women fare better, but what about the mediocre men?
- The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/parenting/
- Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/likeable-elizabeth-warren-2020.html
It was pushed by Madison Avenue and preached by self-help gurus. Then it entered politics.
- We Prosecute Murder Without the Victim’s Help. Why Not Domestic Violence?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/domestic-violence-recanting-crawford.html
For years, cases in which victims didn’t want to cooperate were simply tossed out. Then a dedicated group of prosecutors found a better way.
- When Is a Transplant Worth It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/when-is-a-transplant-worth-it.html
A year in a hospital bed is a “success” while dying after 11 months is failure.
- Imprisoned for Trying to Save His Son
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/prison-mass-incarceration-trump.html
Mass incarceration was America’s biggest mistake over the last half-century.
- Sweden is going cashless
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sweden-is-going-cashless/
- What Number of Kids Makes Parents Happiest?
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/optimal-best-number-of-children/588529/
Zero? Three? Six? 2.1?
- In News Industry, a Stark Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots
https://www.wsj.com/graphics/local-newspapers-stark-divide/
Local newspapers are failing to make the digital transition larger players did — and are in danger of vanishing
- The science divide: Why do Latino and black students leave STEM majors at higher rates?
- How difficult is it to find a job in America?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/05/02/how-difficult-is-it-to-find-a-job
Despite an April jobs report that showed the U.S. unemployment rate had fallen to a 49-year low, experts from the Hamilton Project at Brookings find that unemployed Americans have more trouble finding a job today than at the peak of the last two business cycles
- Do Married Millennials Cheat on Each Other?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/millennials-are-less-likely-cheat-boomers/588286
For young couples these days, there seems to be more adulting, less adultery.
- ‘Heartbeat bills’ are wholesome provocations in the abortion debate
Why should “viability” be the dispositive criterion for abortion?
- When to cut off financial help to adult children
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/02/when-cut-off-financial-help-adult-children
- Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/chris-power-mothers/576415/
Chris Power’s debut collection, Mothers, reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.
- Since 2008, Only High-Income People Have Seen Their Housing Costs Drop
Apartment List research finds that housing markets are only exacerbating the gap between the rich and poor, and homeowners and renters.
- How Families With Kids Drive Suburban Segregation
The old divide between family-friendly suburbs and childless city living is fading. The new divide is within the suburbs themselves.
- All-White Neighborhoods Are Dwindling as America Grows More Diverse
Segregated nonwhite neighborhoods persist, with consequential exceptions.
- Is Mandatory Retirement the Answer to an Aging Workforce?
https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1715
- It’s Not About Sex
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/05/23/not-about-sex/
Sex workers, sex trafficking, and debates about sex work itself.
- Why streaming kids according to ability is a terrible idea
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-streaming-kids-according-to-ability-is-a-terrible-idea
Of factors influencing student achievement, one of the most significant factors – far more than reducing class size (effect: 0.21) or even providing feedback on student work (0.7) – is the teachers’ estimate of achievement (1.57).
- A Widely Cited Statistic That Supposedly Proved Student Debt Was a Rich Person Problem Was the Result of a Coding Error
- Miss America, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Are All Black Women for the First Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/style/miss-teen-usa-america-black.html
Each contest has previously had black winners, but the simultaneous wins make for a powerful symbol of how the pageants are evolving.