Showing results for: mental illness (page 44)
Stop these Caitlyn Jenner rumors: Spreading gossip on transgender people’s struggles endangers lives
Nico Lang
By focusing on sensational "detransitioning" whispers, we overlook the very real issues facing trans people today
“Crisis pregnancy centers are just plain a–holes”: Samantha Bee and Patton Oswalt expose fake abortion clinics
Antoaneta Roussi
Oswalt starred as Orson Welles in a parody of "F for Fake," warning of the tricks by the pregnancy centers
Gene Simmons’ Prince apology: What he gets wrong—and right—about addiction
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Simmons walked back his insensitive remarks about Prince's death, but his anger isn't unreasonable
Will the Trump-Clinton Taco Bowl be the ugliest election ever? Maybe not—but it could be close
Andrew O'Hehir
Jefferson called John Adams a hermaphrodite; Hoover said Al Smith would dig a tunnel to Rome. Step up, Donald!
I’ve become my hoarder mother: How my kids turned me into a pathological packrat
Judy Batalion
Mom's compulsions -- and messes -- were traumatizing and I vowed not to have them. Then I had kids
“Are there no workhouses?”: Meet the nasty House Republican whose bill would make poor kids starve
Jeff Bryant
Todd Rokita's bill is called the "Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act." Naturally, it does neither
Cruz’s spanking fetish: Ted Cruz’s authoritarian streak comes out when he urges spanking a child to silence dissent
Amanda Marcotte
A Cruz crowd loved him suggesting spanking a child heckler, because authoritarianism isn't just a Trump thing
Why we can’t reform our cops: Race, guns and the failure to police the police
Malcolm K. Sparrow
Police kill an average of three people per day. It does not have to be this way, yet never seems to change
Not anyone’s “crazy bitch”: Smashing the “Fatal Attraction” clichés of the “female breakdown”
Nico Lang
A new wave of complex female characters are pushing back against the misogyny of the "bunny boiler"
“Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness
Kim Brooks
Authors Kim Brooks and Ethan Canin on writing, unhappiness, and why it's a terrible time to be a kid—and a parent
9 ways climate change is making us sick
Reynard Loki
A rapidly warming planet means we'll be seeing more asthma, allergies and food-borne illnesses for years to come
Death on the street: America’s homeless population is growing older and sicker
Margot Kushel
Half the country's adult homeless are now 50 and over. It's a burgeoning crisis that demands systemic changes
Leave Jake Lloyd alone: We need compassion for mental illness, not snark
Matthew Rozsa
The "Phantom Menace" star was hospitalized for schizophrenia, and the Internet's response is predictably brutal
Forget the boycott: This is how we teach North Carolina and Mississippi a lesson
Jim Downs
We must educate and fight for LGBT rights in the South. A punishing boycott only hurts people who need our help
Addiction is a learning disorder: Why the war on drugs is useless, AA undermines treatment, and addiction studies can learn a lot from autism
Zachary Siegel
Salon talks to Maia Szalavitz on her new book "Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction"
Where mass incarceration inflames the HIV crisis: Report shows Louisiana jails violate prisoners’ human rights
Ben Norton
Study reveals the "non-existent HIV treatment" in jails in Louisiana, the state with the highest incarceration rate
The long, winding road to marriage equality: From the Mattachine Society to ACT UP to “Ellen,” they all helped make it possible
David Cole
Countless gay rights advocates worked the legal as well as the cultural angles to get us to where we are today
My journey to justice: I toured prison systems around the world looking for ways to improve our own
Baz Dreisinger
If we truly want to change the American prison system, we must accept that no country has a monopoly on innovation
Is an anti-vax couple accountable for their son’s death?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Did Ezekiel Stephan have to die?
“One of the most barbaric and inhumane aspects of our society”: Shaka Senghor on the horror of solitary confinement
Elias Isquith
Former inmate and current activist for criminal justice reform talks with Salon about his new memoir
“I was melting from the inside”: My struggle with postpartum anxiety
Elizabeth Isadora Gold
"Since my daughter’s birth, I carry emotional instability like a spore in my head, latent, but ready to sprout"
Caitlyn Jenner slams Hillary Clinton: She “couldn’t care less about women”
Michael Garofalo
Caitlin Jenner was sharply critical of Hillary Clinton during the season premier of her reality sho.
Caitlyn Jenner’s absurd faith in Ted Cruz: Supporting the anti-LGBT evangelical hoping he’ll come around on trans issues is ridiculous
Rachel Kramer Bussel
While Jenner admits Democrats are "better" on social issues, Cait thinks she can get Cruz to come around
“Both-sexual” men on TV can save lives: How “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is smashing the “evil bi guy” myth
Nico Lang
Bisexual women abound on TV, but bi men are usually portrayed as sinister—or at least too shady to date
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