The Bad Apples Were at the Top
If Alyssa Peterson had never been ordered to torture she would still be alive.
If Alyssa Peterson had never been ordered to torture she would still be alive.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
What caused Alyssa Peterson to put a bullet in her head in September 2003 after just a few weeks in Iraq? And why were the press and the public not told about it?
AP | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business
McLEAN, Va. — Medical examiners have completed an autopsy on a Freddie Mac executive found dead in an apparent suicide, but say a final determin...
AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT and ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business
McLEAN, Va. — By last fall, the heady days for mortgage giant Freddie Mac were over, and what was left for executives like David Kellermann were...
AP | ALAN ZIBEL and MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
UPDATE: 11:55 PM: The Washington Post reports more new information about Kellerman's apparent suicide, including the heartbreaking detail that his wif...
A Pakistan News | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
A suicide bomber was killed Friday by police before he could reach an Afghan minister's home in western Afghanistan, but a second bomber detonated his...
Mallika Chopra | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
To give a more tangible visualization of that number, that's about four full jumbo jet planes' worth of passengers suddenly committing suicide.
Lise Van Susteren | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green
Lethal global overheating - strike the innocuous sounding "global warming" - is not something that may happen in the next century or even mid-century - it is happening now.
RIA Novosti | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
A soldier in Chechnya killed his platoon commander and two other soldiers before turning his weapon on himself, a police source told RIA Novosti on Mo...
Aaron Glantz | Posted 04.23.2009 | Entertainment
It's great to see reality TV taking in some of the reality of the real, "real world" -- and especially bringing to true costs of the war in Iraq to an audience that might not be listening to NPR.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Apart from Iraq and Afghanistan, there is another battle is brewing on the homefront. In January alone, 24 soldiers were believed to have committed suicide.
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
Every day, week, and month that the current recession continues, and even deepens, more people die, get seriously injured physically, and suffer emotional hardships that can scar them for life.
Kayla Williams | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living
I went into the psychiatrist's office and tried to explain my fears -- that I would never get better, never readjust, never make it in the civilian world.
Dawn Teo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business
PHOENIX--As reported by a local ABC affiliate earlier today, an embittered homeowner shot himself in the head Tuesday on the outskirts of town as SWAT...
Amanda Guinzburg | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living
Daltonians: keep your beacons burning. Gather your courage and lean on each other. Go on until you can again go forth. Do it in his name.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
It's reassuring to know that in these tough fiscal times, Congress is not only listening to Wall Street CEOs, but that they are also listening to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
Nick Turse | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business
Across the United States, people have been reacting to the dire economic circumstances with extreme acts, including bank robberies, murder, and suicide.
Diane Dimond | Posted 02.18.2009 | Living
I say the city of Albuquerque owes the Parkins family a second opinion. Dr. Baden, who took this case for free, may conclude it was suicide. But I doubt it.
Chip Conley | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business
What does it take to help you realize what you're worth? And, who determines what you're worth? Two simple questions, but they're so complex to answ...
Newsweek | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business
Recent weeks have seen a spate of suicides by some of the most financially powerful people in the world. German billionaire industrialist Adolf Merckl...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
In this time of struggle for many LGBT Americans, I can't help wondering why those who are passionate about some civil rights aren't interested in all civil rights.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
CNN reported that a 74 year old German billionaire Adolf Merckle, once a # 44 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, committed a suicide by...
Douglas Faneuil | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media
Praising a suicide as honorable may come with an extremely high price: namely, more suicides. News organizations have a duty to temper such judgments -- not to censor them, but to put them in context.
AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
BERLIN — German billionaire Adolf Merckle threw himself in front of a train after his business empire, which included interests ranging from VW ...
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 01.17.2009 | World
ROME — An alleged Mafia boss who was caught on wiretaps purportedly discussing Cosa Nostra's new hierarchy hanged himself in a Sicilian jail hou...
Stephen Funk | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics