Sighted people may not realize when their help is inappropriate. One common type of inappropriate help is motivated by paternalistic assumptions about blindness.

If you’ve never heard the agony of a doubter and despair of a near apostate, I would like to provide you a glimpse. In 2013, I received an email from Jane [a pseudonym], a teenage girl in the final ...

As of November 1, almost 42 million people in the United States—one in eight Americans—will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. It is the first time that America’s ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. The storm is expected to slice ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...