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New York, NY—Nate Link, M.D. just received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the Political category for his ground-breaking and controversial book, The Ailing Nation: Lessons from the Bedside for America’s Leaders. Chief Medical Officer at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Dr. Link has picked up three awards, in

Often intervention strategies in SA schools rely on psychological interventions - but violence is rooted in both individual and broader social and economic conditions in which children are located, researchers found.

Few things in our society ever get questioned. We get caught in its cogwheels in such a way that we don’t realize that our expectations, attitudes, and ideas about how things should be get distorted. And when it comes to women, unwanted things and unpleasant experiences they have to go through are often so normalized, nobody makes a big deal out of it. You stop for a sec and wonder ‘how on earth did this happen?’ This exact discussion was sparked when one redditor asked women on Ask Reddi...

More than half of Estonian citizens are unhappy with the way Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has handled the coronavirus crisis, compared with 38 percent who are satisfied, a new study has found. The survey was carried out by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and pollster Norstat and involved 500 people. The coronavirus infection rate has been growing rapidly in Estonia since February and on March 8 the government agreed to establish restrictions similar to those enforced in spring 2020...

0"> Ülemiste Keskus shopping mall in Tallinn, on Monday morning, following the lifting of restrictions which had kept most businesses closed since late March. Source: Anna Aurelia Minev/ERR Sixty percent of Estonian citizens find the governments handling of the coronavirus pandemic below par, while 73 percent believe stricter restrictions are needed, according to a recent survey. The survey, conducted earlier this week by pollsters Norstat on behalf of conservative think-t...

Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.

Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.

UC Berkeley has decided to reverse its original plans to disband the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, or ISSI, allowing the program to continue social justice research. The program’s closure was decided by campus last fall due to financial constraints during the COVID-19 pandemic. ISSI community members alleged that the decision undermined UC Berkeley’s commitment to people of color. After an outcry in defense of the preservation of ISSI and strong member support, campus is now r...

UC Berkeley reverses course and will not close institute helping students of color FacebookTwitterEmail Troy Duster, pictured outside the Ann a Head building, is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at UC Berkeley.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less 2of8 Troy Duster is founder of UC Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less 3of8 4of8 Troy Duster stands under the doorway of the co...

Support for the non-parliamentary Estonia 200 party continues to rise, while falling for the two opposition parties, Reform and SDE, and remaining on balance stable for the three coalition parties, according to a recent poll. Support for the larger opposition party, and the largest party overall in terms of seats, Reform, stood at 28.8 percent, around the same figure the party saw in the March 2019 Riigikogu elections where it won 34 seats, according to the research conducted by pollsters Norst...