A major paper debunking the “serotonin hypothesis” has a lot of people agitated. But leaving more room for nuance in our discussions about mental health is the right idea.

I spoke with Senator Debbie Stabenow, the architect of the law’s mental health care provisions, to understand how it happened—and what it can teach us about policy reform.

Now Republicans swear they’re going to address mental health. How dumb do they think the American people are?

The self-immolation of an environmental activist in Washington, D.C., revives an uncomfortable debate over the practice—and how we should talk about it.

“Every minute I wasn’t with the kids, personally, I was beyond treading water with my mental health. I was just drowning.”

After managing an onslaught of calls during the pandemic, workers at the Lines for Life hotline in Oregon say they need support too.

The data we have suggests a connection—and the problem may be growing.

Climate change is already devastating the young, who feel abandoned by their governments and earlier generations.

We veterans survived the post-9/11 wars through dumb luck. Surviving the aftermath was another story.

Silicon Valley’s exploitative entrepreneurial set has come to rescue the recently detached royals from a life outside the upper crust, to the detriment of the rest of us.

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight.

Rather than focus on normalizing weeping on the job, why not just make jobs suck less?

How the pandemic put a grotesque new face on the political normalization of brutality.

A group of libertarians took over a rural town to live out their dreams of small government and freedom from regulation. The local bears had other ideas.

Americans are increasingly frustrated by the obligation to ride out a global disaster on their own. They have every reason to be.

Everything is pretty terrible right now. A glut of pop psych advice wants you to think you can muscle your way out of it alone.

Why is Trump’s son-in-law meeting with “presidential candidate” Kanye West instead of bringing peace to the Mideast and saving America from the coronavirus?

“The Painter and the Thief” is a dispatch from the space where a man’s life and his portrait intersect.