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Public radio's bad dream

Susan Emerling
Joe Frank conjures up the nightmares that "This American Life" and "A Prairie Home Companion" have when they go home at night.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor
Are impoverished children doomed? Plus: John Stossel's journalistic integrity; having a gas with flatulence story.

Damaged goods

Beth Broeker
The parents of a murderer sue adoption workers, claiming they should have been told about the boy's mentally ill birth mother.

Pundits of pain

Andreas Killen
In the wake of Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, academics turn trauma studies into a hot discipline.

Blue Glow

Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2000

Soul brothers

Jake Tapper
At their last debate before the Iowa caucus, Bradley and Gore court the minority vote.

Is being hooked a choice?

Andy Dehnart
A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.

Rudy's right and Rosie's wrong

Jonathan Foreman
New York's feisty mayor is the best thing that ever happened to the city's homeless.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor
Andrew Sullivan defends his politics
Plus: You don't have a right to privacy on your boss's time; did HIV+ mom make the right choice?

Presents of mind

Stephanie Zacharek, Maria Russo
A selection of books sure to charm, delight and inform even the most particular readers on your list.

God, glass, LSD

Greg Bottoms
After dropping six hits of acid, my brother had his first psychotic episode.

Surgeon general pushes mental health treatment

Dena Bunis
Shame and the lack of insurance keep many from getting the help they need.

Word doctor

Rafael Campo
A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.

Who will go nuts?

Robert Burton
Predicting mental illness is usually no better than gambling, but we keep trying.

The outer limits of schizophrenia treatment

Dawn MacKeen
Researchers are treating teenagers for schizophrenia before they are diagnosed. Some bioethicists think that's insane.

Painting insanity black

Annie Murphy Paul
Why are there more black schizophrenics?

Taking a chance on love

Jane Smith
Suddenly, we would be allowed to adopt a baby -- if we could accept the very real possibility that, one day, he would be mentally ill.

She jokes, he sulks

Salon Staff
Kids! Cut the posturing and hostility!

A cooler head prevails

Fred Branfman
Psychologist Robert Firestone rejects the quick fix for bad marriage.

Washington Post critic accuses widower of “geezer porn”

Craig Offman
Tales of denture loss and defecation prove too much to bear.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor
Conason on Bradley; Tapper on Gore and Naomi Wolf; plus Doonesbury and those $&%#@ loud kids!

Death wish

David Bowman
It's not so weird to think about suicide, but you'd have to be sick to actually do it.

Faith healing

Jon Bowen
Can prayer do anything more than make you feel better?

Imagined ugliness

Dawn MacKeen
New study offers hope for sufferers of body dysmorphic disorder.
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