How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.

How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.

A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?

Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved him from a system that’s unkind to the mentally ill.

An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.

A girl spends time with her mentally unstable mother.

Reprint: the aftermath of a mental breakdown.

American prisons can’t handle mentally ill inmates.

The story of a marginalized, mentally ill young man who drew the FBI’s attention with his social-media posts and then staggered into its elaborately constructed snare.

Andrew Goldstein’s crime set in motion a dramatic shift in how we care for the violent mentally ill. Including for himself—when he’s released this month.

For years sheriffs, mental health advocates, families and prosecutors have sounded the alarm about the number of people with mental illness arrested and locked up, many for minor crimes.

Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?

“He stood on edges. He skied edges. He climbed edges.”

Two sisters; a grotesque religious ritual.

What happened after two Wisconsin girls made headlines for attempting to kill their friend in the internet character’s name.

Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight.

An investigation into the deadly use of Tasers by police.

George Trow’s Within the Context of No Context was a brilliant, scary vision of a cultural end-time. Then, having described it, he lived it, spiraling into madness.

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.

A man cares for his ex's mentally unstable brother.

An investigation into America’s largest chain of psychiatric hospitals, where patients are held against their will to maximize profits.