Showing results for: mental illness (page 47)
Graduate students fight back at Yale: “I’m trying to support myself and my son … but it’s not working”
Elias Isquith
Yale's administration should grant a neutral election, two graduate school student-employee organizers tell Salon
The one percent’s ultimate hypocrisy: They won’t move into high-rent apartments because of the homeless displaced by high rents
Tana Ganeva
Gentrification has come full circle
The voice told me to end my life: This love quieted the voices better than any pill
Jordan Kurella
When he met me, I took one pill to quiet the voices. Now it is our marriage that tethers me to what is real
Rathergate and the dark magic of 2004: When the GOP learned how to subvert truth and alter political reality
Andrew O'Hehir
Long before Benghazi and Planned Parenthood, Karl Rove toppled Dan Rather, gutted CBS and proclaimed lies as truth
“No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken”
Annie Zaleski
Salon talks to Hersh about music, mental health and her new book "Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt"
Laura Ingraham and Fox News have a dumb new lie (that sounds a lot like one of their greatest hits)
Amanda Marcotte
Democrats just want to hand out free stuff! GOP responds to debate by decrying work incentive programs as freebies
“Stick person,” “Skinny bitch,” “Giraffe”: Stop bullying me for being thin
Anna Oudra
I support women of all sizes, but the notion that "real women have curves" has made my life hell
“Angry, alienated, isolated, maybe a little delusional” — and with “access to efficient killing machinery”
Scott Timberg
A noted scholar says we misunderstand the relationship between mental health and gun violence
It’s so much worse than Ben Carson: Grotesque pandering to gun nuts from Republicans who would be president
Amanda Marcotte
As Obama and Clinton talk sense on guns, it has fallen to the GOP to bring the crazy. They have not disappointed
“I executed 62 people. I’m sorry”: An executioner turned death-penalty opponent tells all
Selene Nelson
"Three hours away from being executed and he’s putting his sundae away for tomorrow. There was no tomorrow"
People die because of this man: The real reason we never get gun control, no matter how many people get gunned down
Peter Dreier
Wayne LaPierre is the NRA's hit man -- and his target is any sensible gun control, no matter the death toll
Donald Trump’s cold-blooded “genius”: How fatalism on gun violence plays right into the NRA’s hands
Bob Cesca
One-upping Jeb "Stuff Happens" Bush, vile front-runner calls mass murderers "geniuses" who'll kill no matter what
Larry Wilmore crushes Trump’s plan to arm teachers: “Let’s not elect a guy who’s getting his policy ideas from the movie ‘Kindergarten Cop'”
Sarah Burris
Wilmore breaks down the 5-step plan America has to avoid talking about gun control after a mass murder
John Oliver takes apart GOP’s odious “mental health” cop-out
Sarah Burris
"The vast majority of mentally ill people are non-violent," Oliver says. And yet they're the GOP's scapegoat
It’s not just about guns: What the gun control debate exposes — and threatens — in our toxic white male culture of violence
Paula Young Lee
America loves its firearms—but they're just the tip of the dysfunctional iceberg
The 10 most egregious U.S. abuses of psychology and psychiatry
Bruce E. Levine
From Project MKUltra to the CIA's torture program, mental health professionals in the US have some explaining to do
Hillary’s Taylor Swift problem: What the fight over “authenticity” — in politics and in pop — is really about
Annie Zaleski
Are scrappy individuals — like Ryan Adams and Bernie Sanders — inherently better than machine-backed players?
“Serial” may investigate Bowe Bergdahl next: Here are 6 huge questions we hope Sarah Koenig will be able to answer
Anna Silman
Sources say "Serial" may work with "Zero Dark Thirty" writer Mark Boal on the former POW's case
Barack Obama just gave the most important racial justice speech of his presidency. Here’s why
Brittney Cooper
Over the weekend, the president gave an unprecedented speech addressing the plight of black women
“We’re still dealing with autism like it’s this wacky historical aberration”: Steve Silberman on the truth about autism
Michael Schulson
"Autistic people have always been here in large numbers," says the author of "Neurotribes," "and they need help"
The Cold War is back — and it never went away: Bobby Fischer’s tragedy and the conflict that ate America’s soul
Andrew O'Hehir
America's greatest chess player was completely nuts -- but the rest of us were infected by Cold War madness too
The sisters who spoke to spirits: How two mischievous girls gave birth to a religion
Ada Calhoun
The Fox girls were a 19th century phenomenon -- and their fame may have been predicated on a childhood prank
In defense of loneliness
Tal Abbady
Medical research suggests the outlook is grim for the chronically lonely. I can't imagine living any other way
If “pro-lifers” wanted to end abortion — rather than control sex — their tactics would be radically different
Valerie Tarico
Cut abortions by 90 percent in 20 years? Yes -- but not the way antiabortion activists think
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