Can Cotton Balls Help Teach Kids With Autism?

New Tools and Strategies for Educating Children Who Face a Daunting Array of Challenges

There’s a saying among families who have kids on the autism spectrum: If you’ve met one kid with autism, you’ve met one kid with autism. Those on the spectrum have challenges socializing, communicating, and behaving in typical ways. But while some may have no interest in other people, others may be so interested in joining a group at play that they jump in without asking permission. Some repeat phrases said to them over and over; others don’t say much at all. With such a complicated set of symptoms, there is …

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Can’t Our Governments Just Get Along?

Good Regional Planning in Southern California Is Hard to Find. Here's Proof That It’s Possible.

Isaac Newton’s Law of Inertia applies equally well to rocks and politics: A body in motion resists any change to its speed or direction. If you’ve ever sat in on …

Obamacare’s Fresno Report Card

How the Rollout of the Affordable Care Act Could’ve Gone Better and the Challenges Ahead

Website “glitches.” Long wait times for enrollment. Confusion over changes to existing health insurance plans. Not exactly the start Affordable Care Act (ACA) supporters hoped for, but in the end, …

Welcome to the U.S.! Here’s Your Health Insurance Card!

How Obamacare Is Changing the Lives of L.A.’s Immigrants

Millions of Americans have enrolled in new health insurance plans because of the expansion in coverage offered by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. One …

Could We Have Kept A-Rod Off Drugs?

Maybe Not, But We Can Certainly Keep the Next Generation of Baseball Stars Clean

For decades, major league baseball players have been doing drugs of various sorts to improve their performance: amphetamines that got players amped up for games and through the long season …

If Clean Water Is a Right, Why Have We Been So Wrong?

Despite Trillions in Investments, Hundreds of Millions of People Are Still Drinking Unsafe Water

In some parts of the globe, people trek on foot for miles every day for clean water to carry home in heavy tanks. In many developing counties, toilets are scarce …