Showing results for: mental illness (page 85)
A harrowing, inspiring “Boy’s Life”
Rebecca Traister
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy talks about the passion for social justice she shares with the father she never knew, and changing the world with her camera, one story at a time.
Miscarriage of justice
Robert J. Howe
Imagine a future where the punishment for not having your baby is a life sentence of hard labor.
Damaged goods
Cary Tennis
I got engaged, then found out she is bipolar. How can I break it off with the least amount of hurt for both of us?
Off the couch
Meredith Maran
After 40 years -- and more than $100,000 in bills -- I finally gave up on the talking cure.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Yesterday's anti-Semitic screed against billionaire George Soros was nauseating -- but it won't be the last coming from the "old" far right.
“Her Husband”
Kamy Wicoff
Diane Middlebrook talks about why the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a soaring success despite his infidelity and her suicide -- and why promising to be sexually faithful is folly.
Letters
Salon Staff
"This nut job would be thrilled to be the last of her kind": Readers respond to John Sundman's "How I Decoded the Human Genome" and "One Vote for the New Eugenics."
How I decoded the human genome
John Sundman
We are becoming the masters of our own DNA. But does that give us the right to decide that my children should never have been born?
“You burn out fast when you demagogue”
Kerry Lauerman
Tucker Carlson on why he doesn't like Karen Hughes, what makes Bill O'Reilly "dangerous" and the reasons he prefers CNN to Fox.
Your biggest fan!
Tucker Carlson
I had just left the CNN set when I was handed a letter from a lawyer saying his client would soon be charging me with rape. My life, and assumptions about sex scandals, would change forever.
Blissful agony
Cary Tennis
What's more insane: Saying no to the man of my dreams or saying "I do" twice in one year?
“Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
Joan Walsh
The power of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights call-to-arms comes from watching a great man grapple with the possibility that he's wrong.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Laura Miller's essay on Mormon crimes and to an interview with Ann Coulter.
Am I selfish?
Cary Tennis
She loves me and wants to marry me, but I want out because she lacks the ability to intrigue me.
The “Sex Woman”
David Bowman
Erica Jong talks about being married to a schizophrenic, the invention of naked women, Henry Miller's erotic fantasies, what's wrong with Bush and -- of course -- the zipless you-know-what.
What the Bush tax cut could have bought
Mark Follman, Laura McClure
That $330 billion could have covered every uninsured child in the country and paid for millions of teachers and child-care workers. Instead it's going to the richest Americans.
“Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide” by Lisa Lieberman
Laura Miller
A new book argues that suicide can be a rational response to an intolerable world -- and says that by medicalizing suicides, we rob them of their free will.
Death of a dreamer
Anthony York
In her green hometown, far from the squalid road in Gaza where she was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer, the young activist is remembered as an idealist who loved life.
This week on DVD
Salon Staff
Baseball, bandleaders, submarines, a Jew in the Hitler Youth, the Osbournes' first season, Brad Pitt in Tibet. Plus: If you watch "The Ring" on DVD, does it still kill you?
Hell no, Bibi’s nephew won’t go
Michelle Goldberg
Israel is throwing the book at Netanyahu's refusenik kin, as the number of young people evading military service continues to rise.
Artificial stupidity
John Sundman
The saga of Hugh Loebner and his search for an intelligent bot has almost everything: Sex, lawsuits and feuding computer scientists. There's only one thing missing: Smart machines.
Letters
Salon Staff
The interracial marriage debate continues. Plus: Readers respond to Suzy Hansen's interview with Betsy Lerner.
Bingeing and learning
Suzy Hansen
Author Betsy Lerner explains why 20 years of therapy wasn't enough to save her from food addiction and manic-depression.
Oscar: Raw and uncut
Damien Bona
Richard Gere gets snubbed, gay directors romp, Diane Lane wins one for the tramps, and Polanski is still at large -- but he might take home the golden nude.
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