The parents of a teenage boy who committed suicide after being targeted by bullies filed a lawsuit against district where he attended school, alleging officials knew their son was being targeted but did nothing to protect him. » 7/16/14 11:30am 7/16/14 11:30am

Tennessee joins Oklahoma in passing a new piece of legislation which will basically allow the bullying of students by other students based on religious grounds. Texas, yeehaw, already has such a law. » 5/26/14 11:30pm 5/26/14 11:30pm

On April 16th, 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-River Falls student Alyssa Funke committed suicide. In the weeks prior, she'd suffered an avalanche of threats and bullying from former high school classmates. But police are eager to blame pornography — and not online harassment — for her suicide. » 5/21/14 6:00pm 5/21/14 6:00pm

A pair of Indiana teens are facing felony charges after a video was posted on Snapchat which showed them physically abusing a freshman in a high school locker room. » 5/21/14 10:40am 5/21/14 10:40am

A California mayor is dealing with the fallout after he said bullied kids should "grow a pair." » 5/20/14 10:30pm 5/20/14 10:30pm

Results are in from the first large scale study of the experiences of LGBT youth in Japanese schools, and unsurprisingly, those experiences suck. » 5/12/14 11:02pm 5/12/14 11:02pm

The city council of Carson, California has given preliminary approval to a law that would make bullying a misdemeanor...for kids as young as kindergarten. So, what they're saying is, you can get a misdemeanor for being a mister meanie!!!! » 5/09/14 6:10pm 5/09/14 6:10pm

We all enjoy a story of an underdog overcoming some bullies, but a California teen has taken bully prank-revenge to the next level. The high school sophomore girl brought in seemingly innocuous cupcakes she baked herself and passed them out to her bullies. But her peers soon realized something was up because the… » 5/04/14 1:45pm 5/04/14 1:45pm

An anti-bullying PSA for VH1 is a huge viral hit, tapping into the easy feelgood satisfaction of revenge. But ultimately, the message it sends about bullying is complete and utter bullshit. » 4/25/14 10:00am 4/25/14 10:00am

A arrest has been made in the Netherlands in connection to the death of Amanda Todd, a Canadian teenager who committed suicide after chronicling her online harassment. » 4/17/14 11:35pm 4/17/14 11:35pm

A school in Lincoln, Nebraska is wiping some major egg off its face after a horrible bullying advice flyer was sent home with kids. » 4/16/14 9:30pm 4/16/14 9:30pm

A 9-year-old North Carolina boy whose My Little Pony backpack were banned by his school because they were a "trigger for bullies" will be allowed to return with the bag, according to school district officials. » 3/21/14 10:00am 3/21/14 10:00am

A recent survey by the Sikh Coalition has found that half of Sikh children and two-thirds of Sikh children who wear their hair in turbans report being bullied at school. The report entitled, "Go Home Terrorist," surveyed more than 700 students in California, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Washington and was included in… » 3/16/14 3:30pm 3/16/14 3:30pm

I first read about fighting fire with fire in an old Tin-Tin comic I had borrowed from the library in the hopes that I would one day be interested in adventure (no. It's the napping life for me). In the comic, Tin Tin sets some grass on fire to put out another fire that is coming towards him and his merry band of… » 3/08/14 5:30pm 3/08/14 5:30pm

A NYC-based nonprofit called Little Baby Face provides free plastic surgery to underprivileged kids who are bullied because of facial deformities. One 15-year-old girl who received a nose job says she had to be homeschooled for three years because of the viciousness of the harassment. She appeared on the Today Show… » 1/06/14 7:45pm 1/06/14 7:45pm

Two girls — one 14-year-old and one TWELVE-year-old — have just been arrested, and bullying and Facebook played a part in the charges. » 10/15/13 2:20pm 10/15/13 2:20pm

Mere hours after Twitter’s UK honcho Tony Wang apologized personally for the death and rape threats scores of women have received in apparent response to their activism, British classicist and occasional TV presenter Mary Beard received a bomb threat on Twitter, because the world can often be one big, festering pile… » 8/04/13 1:00pm 8/04/13 1:00pm

While the following news may seem a little bit TL;DR/duh/moving on, a new study indicates that if you are unattractive and/or mean at work, your coworkers are more like to be unpleasant to you. Man, I hate high school. » 6/24/13 10:25am 6/24/13 10:25am