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Published August 15, 2013
Prior to leaking secret government information to WikiLeaks Private Bradley Manning was reportedly showing all the signs of severe mental distress, and the Army seemingly did nothing about it.
Published August 13, 2013
While not every bullied or abused or powerless child grows up to be Whitey Bulger, one did.
Published August 08, 2013
A large-scale study in Sweden has shown that treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with stimulants like Adderall or Ritalin reduced criminality by 32 percent in men and 41 percent in women.
Published August 06, 2013
The question many people seem to have for Alex Rodriguez, now banned from baseball for 211 games for using performance-enhancing drugs, is this: You’re obviously a great baseball player. Why risk your multimillion-dollar annual contract and your legacy in sports in order to perform even better?
Published August 01, 2013
Ariel Castro was wrong when he claimed Thursday, bizarrely, that there was “harmony” in the house where he kept three women hostage, repeatedly beating and raping them. But he was correct about one thing.
Published July 31, 2013
Anthony Weiner obviously has problems that make him unfit to govern, but his addictive sexting behavior tells us at least as much about changes in gender roles—particularly the new eagerness of women to be overtly, graphically sexual—as it does about him.
Published July 24, 2013
Anthony Weiner is no different than a heroin addict running for mayor who collapses with a needle in his arm during a debate.
Published July 22, 2013
Sergeant Sean Murphy, the Massachusetts State Police tactical photographer who released bloody photographers of accused mass murderer Dzokhar Tsarnaev to Boston Magazine, says he did so to counter the glorification of Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Published July 19, 2013
Tanning beds don’t hurt anyone. However, some of the people who use tanning beds, knowing the risks associated with them, are hurting themselves.
Published July 13, 2013
The George Zimmerman trial would never have garnered national attention if a white man had shot a white teenager in a white neighborhood where a neighborhood watch group had sprung up. The trial has dominated headlines because it taps into a theme that continues to rivet Americans: The ways that race and gender continue to determine whether we think of people different from us as equal or trustworthy