Showing results for: mental illness (page 55)
“I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother” writer Liza Long: I’m not scared of my son anymore
Prachi Gupta
The writer and mental health advocate discusses how her family's life has changed since that essay went viral
Out-of-control judges’ new craze: Using electroshock and tasers on defendants!
Heather Digby Parton
Being annoyed with a defendant is not a proper use of an electronic device. But check out these instances
“Would you criminalize fornication?” Desperate new argument against same-sex marriage laughed out of court
Gabriel Arana
Straight people get drunk and pregnant! Gay people don't, so they don't need marriage! That was the real argument
Wiz Khalifa wears suicide prevention shirt to VMAs
Prachi Gupta
His shirt calls attention to the issue and features the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Sinead O’Connor: “I couldn’t understand why people liked me”
Stephen Deusner
Salon Q&A: The genius musician on Sheryl Sandberg, why she won't sing "Troy," teen angst and her brilliant new CD
Cops don’t know how to deal with mental illness, and it’s a huge problem
Joanna Rothkopf
Half of all Americans killed by police every year are mentally ill
CNN Ferguson panel devolves into chaos: “Why do you have to insult me all the time?”
Joanna Rothkopf
Brooke Baldwin tried to moderate a conversation about the mental health of young men of color ... It didn't go well
Can a machine provide reliable mental health counseling?
Joanna Rothkopf
In Philadelphia, an interactive kiosk will screen you for various mental illnesses
Meet the “thoroughly discredited” expert defending Texas’ sweeping abortion law
Katie McDonough
Vincent Rue's seminal research was long ago rejected for peer review because it was found to have "no value"
Read Marc Maron’s beautiful new intro for his 2010 podcast interview with Robin Williams
Prachi Gupta
"He was this sort of electric, shining piece of humanity," Maron says, remembering a king of comedy
Women must undergo pap smears and virginity tests to teach in Brazil
Jenny Kutner
"It's very intimate information that she has the right to keep," said one activist fighting the controversial law
Robert Reich: The Ivy Leagues are a ludicrous waste of resources
Robert Reich
The former secretary of labor on the myth of "paid-what-you're-worth" and how our money can be better spent
How to survive an American century: From JFK to the apocalypse
Tom Engelhardt
Seventy years of lessons on the contradictions and dangers of global superpower-dom
Chuck Klosterman’s shocking secret!: Being the Ethicist doesn’t make me ethical
Katie McDonough
The writer on Stephen Colbert, Donald Sterling and the possible immorality of journalism
9 sinister things the Christian right does in the name of God
Valerie Tarico
Hobby Lobby isn't alone. Evangelicals routinely manipulate the Bible's teachings to serve their political agenda
How I escaped my pederast
Ian Grey
The Bryan Singer scandal brings it all back for me: The drugs, the manipulation and that creepy L.A. man-boy house
Could you “free” yourself of Facebook?
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A 99-day challenge offers a new kind of social media experiment
Gun nuts deploy Rand Paul and Ted Cruz for cynical political scheme
Jim Newell
The Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act was an uncontroversial bill. Until two very political men were asked to get involved
7 tips for having a great one-night stand
Anna Pulley
For those who really desire it, casual sex can -- ahem -- come with increased self-esteem and life satisfaction
We, the people are violent and filled with rage: A nation spinning apart on its Independence Day
Jim Sleeper
School shootings, hatred, capitalism run amok: This 4th of July, we are in the midst of a tragic public derangement
“The Internet’s Own Boy”: How the government destroyed Aaron Swartz
Andrew O'Hehir
A film tells the story of the coder-activist who fought corporate power and corruption -- and paid a cruel price
These “new faces of heroin” stories are just the old face of racism
Maia Szalavitz
Revelations that middle-class whites are "suddenly" shooting up reinforce ugly stereotypes about "typical" users
9 musicals that need movies (and which directors should take them on)
Indiewire
Forget Clint Eastwood's "Jersey Boys." How about "Cats" directed by David Lynch? Make it happen, Hollywood!
A Sandy Hook father’s urgent plea: America must do something about gun violence
Gilles Rousseau
My daughter was killed in one of the worst mass shootings in American history. When will the madness stop?
Page: 55