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Mental Illness
May 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s New Comments on Gaza Protests Make No Sense Whatsoever
The Republican presidential nominee offered up a word salad when asked about the university protests.
April 12, 2024
Scott W. Stern
L.A. Doesn’t Have a Homelessness Crisis. It’s a Crisis of Abandonment.
Two new books show how a frayed social safety net is leaving more and more people alone and vulnerable.
April 14, 2020
Jo Livingstone
What Causes Schizophrenia?
In Robert Kolker’s "Hidden Valley Road," a family tragedy illuminates the mysterious origins of an illness.
February 16, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Mental Health Scapegoat
The GOP's hand-wringing over "deranged" individuals distracts from America's real pathology: guns.
May 20, 2016
Sarah Marshall
Welcome to Maria Bamford’s Neighborhood
In Netflix's 'Lady Dynamite,' Bamford mines comedy from mental illness.
December 30, 2015
Natalie Zarrelli
Benefits of Thinking Like a Stoner
March 30, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Germanwings Mass Murder–Suicide Shows the Importance of Depression Intervention
August 15, 2014
Lisa Appignanesi
Can Science Offer New Answers to Mental Illness?
August 12, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Robin Williams' Death Is a Wakeup Call for Mental Illness
August 1, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
'I Dreamed of a Sudden Death!': Passages from Siegfried Sassoon's Diaries
The haunting private thoughts of one of the twentieth century's best known English soldiers and poets
April 25, 2014
Esther Breger
TV Needs to Stop Treating Mental Illness as a Superpower

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