Families

An incident as a pre-teen ruined Tavis Smiley’s relationship with his father well into adulthood. Muhammad Ali helped restore their relationship.

The urban population is swelling, as government aid becomes increasingly hard to find and the price of housing climbs up and up.

At San Diego’s heavily immigrant Adams Elementary School, a push is on to improve attendance, an indicator linked to dropout rates.

Could the key to all of our environmental problems be greater use of birth control, and therefore a reduction in the growth of the human population?

What does it mean to be American? What does it mean to be Chinese? And how, as an adopted Chinese daughter of an American Caucasian mother, do you find a balance that works for you? And how did China’s one-child policy make that a question faced by tens of thousands of Chinese-born American girls and young women? In search of perspective, Maya Ludtke, 19, traveled back to the town where she was born, meeting girls growing up as she might have, if her parents had kept her.