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Topic: roosevelt island

"Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" by Stacy Horn (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

A history of asylum horrors, on repeat

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Nikki Kahn/Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Photo montage by Salon)

Clinton vs. the press

Jim Newell