The Rise of Preschool Depression
Sara Reistad-Long is a New York-based writer. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Esquire, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. She can also be found blogging at www.sveltegourmand.com, where she explores the intersection of health and delicious food.
According to a groundbreaking new study, chronic depression can begin as young as age 3. Sara Reistad-Long on the controversy over diagnosing and medicating children.
No Sex? No Problem
Jacqueline Jennings is an editorial assistant at the Daily Beast. She has written for comedycentral.com.
After Michael Jackson's death, Brooke Shields called the pop star "asexual." But does asexuality really exist? Jacqueline Jennings investigates the phenomenon of life without libido.
Binghamton Wasn't the Cops' Fault
Raymond W. Kelly was appointed Police Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, making Commissioner Kelly the first person to hold the post for a second, separate tenure. Commissioner Kelly was formerly Senior Managing Director, Global Corporate Security, at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Before that, he served as Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service.
With 14 dead in the Binghamton, New York, massacre, some blame the police for not reacting sooner. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly explains what it really takes to deal with the emotionally disturbed.
How Science Screwed My Kids
Grace Poole is a pseudonym.
When a major study said kids with ADHD could benefit from drugs, we gave my son Ritalin. Then he became manic and delusional-and now the study's researchers say they might have been wrong all along.
Earthy Beauty
Peter Eyre is a veteran actor whose 50-year career spans film, television, and the theatre. His stage credits include Richard II, Hamlet, King Lear, Hedda Gabler, Crime and Punishment, The Seagull, and Terre Haute.
British actor Peter Eyre, who knew Natasha Richardson since she was a child, recalls the qualities that made her so special. Read it and view photos from the actress' life.
Inside Blago's Brain
News Shrink
The Daily Beast's News Shrink cracks open Gov. Blagojevich's strange psyche-and explains why he "thinks like a prostitute."
What McCain Was Really Saying
News Shrink
Psychiatrists deconstruct the hidden conversation during last night's debate.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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