A few of my favorite stories …

In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.

Two decades after Columbine, Americans remain split as to whether guns are dangerous or essential—and the school shootings continue.

How sugar daddies and vaginal microbes created the world’s largest HIV epidemic

Why people tend to appreciate men’s humor so much more than women’s

Eric Matzner says his nootropics will make your brain sharper in weeks.

Research suggests that conditions in the workplace might be to blame when women bully other women

I recently spoke Russian for multiple days for the first time in more than a decade.

Companies are racing to develop real chicken, fish, and beef that don’t require killing animals.

Life in a state that didn’t expand Medicaid

Nurses spend 16 hours on the phone, medications take months to arrive, and patients suffer as they wait.

In an effort to protect children in the midst of addiction epidemics, some states are jailing women for using drugs during pregnancy.