Emily Bazelon is a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and a senior research fellow at Yale Law School. A former senior editor at Slate.com, she is the author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Empathy and Character.
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