Showing results for: mental illness (page 85)
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.
“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”
Andrew O'Hehir
Who knew George Clooney was this good? Sexy, rakish, sure, but nothing prepared us for his directing debut, this astonishing pic about zany Chuck Barris.
The death penalty: “Arbitrary and capricious”
Salon Staff
Outgoing Illinois Gov. George Ryan provoked bitter controversy Saturday when he commuted the sentences of 157 death row inmates. In a speech, he explains his decision.
Jewels, fabulous jewels
Amy Reiter
Does Claudia Schiffer deserve 124 wedding rings? Backstreet Boy Nick Carter wants to get dirty and sweaty with you. Plus: Sorry, Darva Conger fans!
“Fat Land” by Greg Critser
Laura Miller
In America, fat and poor go together. A new book looks at why.
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Andrew O'Hehir
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore bring dignity and Oscar-worthy performances to "The Hours," a lovingly crafted meditation on death, loss and literature.
I’m back!
Anne Lamott
She's tanned, she's rested, she's traumatized by the elections, she's ready to roll. After a three-year absence, longtime Salon columnist Anne Lamott returns.
Lying faces
D. Yap
Abused kids are quick to detect anger -- even where there is none. Psychology professor Seth Pollak believes changing that reflex is crucial to healing.
Reel world domination
Damien Cave
If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so.
Remembering Paul Wellstone
Scott Adams
A longtime staffer recalls how the Minnesota senator took principled stands and cast principled votes -- and used them to win.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Joe Conason
The nation loses a hero with the death of Sen. Paul Wellstone, the happy warrior whose enemies could not help but love him.
The homeless blogger
Noah Shachtman
Kevin Barbieux sleeps in abandoned buildings or shelters -- and writes a daily journal that has made him an Internet celebrity.
Great expectations
Salon Staff
Parents can't overpower nature in defining their children's personalities, says Dr. Lawrence Diller. But they have enormous influence when it comes to behavior.
Madison Avenue and your brain
Matthew Blakeslee
New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on.
“Normal will never happen again”
Douglas Cruickshank
The author of two books about coping with sudden death talks about the emotional fallout of losing someone without having had a chance to say goodbye.
Mood swings
Cary Tennis
My husband suffers from depression and I've taken a lover. But what about my promise to be with him "in sickness and in health"?
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