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Casting the First Stone

Almost four months ago, a Kampala, Uganda-based tabloid called Rolling Stone (no relation to the American magazine) published 100 photographs of gay Ugandans, along with where to find them, and warned against “recruitment.” The headline said “Hang Them.”

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Violent Rhetoric and the Mentally Ill

For some time now, it’s been a reflexive response by media pundits, particularly conservatives and “moderate” liberals, to point to mental illness when some violent and unstable person commits a horrifying act in the name of extremist right-wing beliefs…

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Are Foster Kids Overmedicated? Tonight on PBS

Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent — and children in foster care are among the most likely to be medicated…