News Shrink

News Shrink: The Lovesick Statesman

The release of Gov. Mark Sanford’s emails to his mistress prove he’s not a Spitzer, a Clinton, or an Edwards—he’s a lovesick adolescent. The Daily Beast gets a psychologist to shrink America’s latest love guv from afar.

Madoff's Houdini Syndrome

Despite his yacht and penthouse, Bernard Madoff wasn't in it for money. The Daily Beast's News Shrink on what Wall Street's biggest fraudster shares with the world's greatest magician.

Inside Blago's Brain

The Daily Beast's News Shrink cracks open Gov. Blagojevich's strange psyche-and explains why he "thinks like a prostitute."

MCCAIN'S REVENGE

Punishing the GOP was more important than winning the White House.

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