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Adverse childhood experiences are linked to pre-pregnancy stressful life events across generations
Abstract Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) shape the lifecourse psychosocial well-being, yet evidence linking ACEs to pre-pregnancy stressful life events (pre-PSLEs) across generations remains limited. This study examined the associations between ACEs and pre-PSLEs across two generations of women and explored pathways of intergenerational stress transmission. A total of 2,235 mother-offspring pairs were obtained from the Grandmothers, Mothers, and Their Children’s Health study.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news was covered around the world, from The Washington Post and The Economist, to Der Spiegel in Germany and The Straits Times in Singapore.
A World out of Words
The opening of a bookstore rarely makes international headlines. But when JF Books, known in Chinese as “Jifeng” (seasonal winds), opened its doors in Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2024, the news was covered around the world, from The Washington Post and The Economist, to Der Spiegel in Germany and The Straits Times in Singapore.
Call It the End
Call It the End Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250. Illustration by Tabitha Arnold No president of the United States will ever say it, but we know it to be true: at 250, the state of the union is not good. The semiquincentennial celebrations planned by the White House will not be a demonstration of unity. They will celebrate the domination of one part of the country over the other.
How Taiwan Became the Chipmaker for the World
Books & the Arts / January 19, 2026 Silicon Island How Taiwan became the chipmaker for the world How Taiwan Became the Chipmaker for the World A new book tells the story of the island-nation’s transformation into a central hub for technological development and manufacturing. Ad Policy (Hwa Cheng / Getty) This article appears in the February 2026 issue. When Donald Trump nominated Elbridge Colby as the undersecretary of defense for policy, the news stirred headlines in Taiwan.
Complementarities, Network Effects, and the Antitrust Puzzle of Platform M&A
Network effects are central to both the success of digital platforms and the competition concerns. Large platforms have relied on mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) to expand their ecosystems, integrate technologies, and consolidate user bases. While such deals may accelerate innovation and improve services, they may also lock in end and business users to incumbents’ ecosystems and stifle competition. We argue that network effects are not monolithic, and link five types of complementarit ...
No Country for Women
Reviewed: Soft Burial & The Running Flame by Fang Fang, tr. Michael Berry (Columbia University Press, March 2025). Stars fill the sky, and the moon is bright. The production brigade is having a meeting, to speak bitterness and seek justice for our grievances. So begins a popular 1964 song from the Mao Zedong era, “Don’t Forget the Bitterness of Class Division” (不忘阶级苦). Carried by a sweet female voice, the lyrics depict scenes of abject misery and deprivation.
Multiple Social Demographics and Disparities in Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy in the United States, 2016-2022: An Intersectional Analytic Framework | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11
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Lou Ye's acclaimed 'An Unfinished Film' remains unfinished
The most extraordinary thing about Chinese director Lou Ye's An Unfinished Film (2024) is how ordinary it is, considering the attention it has garnered globally. In semi-documentary style, the 106-minute flick follows a film crew as they try to resurrect a 10-year-old project, and find themselves quarantined at a hotel near Wuhan, China, in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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