Domestic violence is dramatically underreported around the world and in the United States. To shed light on this "invisible epidemic," Rachel Graber and co-authors examine data from a large urban trauma center in Chicago. Important opportunities to provide aid and protection to domestic violence survivors are being missed, they find.
"Youth-centered research pushes scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from doing research on youth to doing research with youth." Omaer Naeem and Emily Markovich Morris share principles to collaborate with young people on education research and highlight the benefits of doing so.
Amid international peril, cutting U.S. defense spending is unrealistic and unwise, Michael O'Hanlon says. Instead, the most sensible path forward is to provide very modest real growth in the defense budget—about 1% a year above inflation for the next two years and perhaps beyond, he contends.
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