Go beyond party lines with Justin T Weller and his counterparts as they work to bring you responsible media that focuses on honest opinions. The State of Us, formerly the Current Issues Show, examines the concepts that Americans are most passionate about and sheds light on those issues yet to be addressed.
TSOU Episode: "TikTok Brain" A New Term Used for Gen Z'ers
Ms. Klein, the mental-health coordinator for a network of sleep-away camps, has a morning routine: responding to queries from anxious parents, who have looked at the photographs posted online the night before. Why does my child look sad? they want to know. Where are their friends?
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Where Does the Public Stand on Supreme Court Decisions?
The Supreme Court term that ended Friday concluded with a series of muscular 6-to-3 decisions divided along partisan lines, with the court's six Republican appointees in the majority. Those rulings, on affirmative action, student loans and gay rights, were reminiscent of the transformative conservative decisions issued last June on abortion, guns, religion and climate change.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Kids Can't Read and Schools to Blame for Suicide?
Ellis Lariviere was an eighth grader at Saint Ann’s, an elite private school in Brooklyn Heights, and he had a lot going for him. Teachers praised him as an “abundantly talented” artist, in a school that trumpeted the arts, and they described him as a positive presence in his classes.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Kids Can't Read and Schools to Blame for Suicide?
In suburban Houston, parents rose up against a top-rated school district, demanding an entirely new reading curriculum. At an elementary school in Hutchinson, Minn., a veteran teacher is crusading for reform, haunted by the fear that, for 28 years, she failed children because she was not trained in the cognitive science behind reading.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Does Social Media Harm Teens? It's Difficult to Prove
There have been increasingly loud public warnings that social media is harming teenagers’ mental health — most recently from the United States surgeon general — adding to many parents’ fears about what all the time spent on phones is doing to their children’s brains.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Is Life Better Than in 1980?
Jade Akintola and Brandon Thomas Brown are balancing three competing financial priorities — preparing for the birth of their first child, saving up for a down payment on their first home and contributing to their retirement fund. Something, they decided, had to give, so in the short term, that thing was their retirement savings.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Issues at Play With Abortion Pills - What You Need to Know
Less than a year after the Supreme Court declared it was ceding the matter of abortion to elected officials, the justices are poised to consider whether the most common method of ending pregnancies can be sharply curtailed in states where abortion remains legal, not just where it is illegal.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Return of US Manufacturing? EPA Rule Changes
In what would be the nation’s most ambitious climate regulation, the proposal is designed to ensure that electric cars make up the majority of new U.S. auto sales by 2032.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: School is for Wasting Time and Money?
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling. My argument in a nutshell: First, everyone leaves school eventually. Second, most of what you learn in school doesn’t matter after graduation. Third, human beings soon forget knowledge they rarely use.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Arming Teachers as Students Shoot the Teachers
HITTMAN, Ohio — Mandi, a kindergarten teacher in Ohio, had already done what she could to secure her classroom against a gunman. She positioned a bookcase by the doorway, in case she needed a barricade. In an orange bucket, she kept district-issued emergency supplies: wasp spray, to aim at an attacker, and a tube sock, to hold a heavy object and hurl at an assailant.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Death of Starter Homes and How it Changes Everything
The American starter home has been a bungalow, a shotgun house, a rowhome.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Prescribing a Plethora of Psychiatric Drugs to Teens
Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem. Renae Smith exemplified a medical practice common among her generation: the simultaneous use of multiple heavy-duty psychiatric drugs.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: A New Third Party? New Hampshire Offers a Lesson
Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Give this article Give this article Give this article Mr. Malinowski is seeking a third term as a representative in the House for New Jersey.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: A New Third Party? New Hampshire Offers a Lesson
A cautionary tale from Croydon, N.H., where one man tried to foist a change so drastic it jolted a community out of political indifference. A Croydon town meeting in March that began as fairly routine. It didn't end that way.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: EP 02: The Problem With Ending Homelessness
HEADWAY With federal housing money in short supply, state and local authorities are looking to health dollars to help tackle homelessness. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: EP 01: How to Reduce Homelessness by 63%
headway The nation's fourth-largest city hasn't solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward. Credit... Christopher Lee for The New York Times Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Coming Megastorms in America
The coming superstorm - really, a rapid procession of what scientists call atmospheric rivers - will be the ultimate test of the dams, levees and bypasses California has built to impound nature's might. But in a state where scarcity of water has long been the central fact of existence, global warming is not only worsening droughts and wildfires.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Should Millennials be Concerned About Money?
"A lot of us were raised with this mentality of, 'Find your passion, be happy, the money will follow.'" "I'm in a good place right now, but it probably won't last." We Aren't "I'm confident I'm going to die at my desk." "By the time he was my age, my dad had five kids and a wife.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: 6 Months of the Ukraine and Russia War - What's Next?
It has been six months since Russian forces swept into Ukraine. This is what the conflict looks like for the combatant. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: 6 Months of the Ukraine and Russia War - What's Next?
Six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the human and financial costs are incalculable. But the figures that have emerged paint a bleak picture. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
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