The recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).

Unpredictable violence, chaotic outbursts and countless trips to the emergency room. What happens when an autistic teenager becomes unmanageable at home?

MSCI, the largest ESG rating company, doesn’t even try to measure the impact of a corporation on the world. It’s all about whether the world might mess with the bottom line.

A list of boys “to look out for” appeared on a high-school bathroom wall last fall. The story of one of them.

'But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.'

The legal world is slowly accepting that age 18—or 21—is not a magical moment of “adult” brain maturity. Are we ready for what that means?

Which is how Frank became the most prolific counterfeiter in American history—a guy with more than $200 million in nearly flawless fake twenties stuffed in a garage. How he got away with it all, well, that’s even crazier.

3M dumped chemical waste in Washington County for decades. A lot of young people got cancer. Some of them made it, some didn’t.

At the Beijing Olympics the superpower rivalry will be played out on the slopes

Many rural households in America don’t have access to safe sewage systems. In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.