As I write this, not even 48 hours have passed since three young women escaped a decadelong nightmare of captivity in a house in Cleveland. In this short time, speculation about them and their ordeal has reached stratospheric heights. Stories parse their 10-year-ago pasts. Headlines declare that "their nightmare is over" and that their escape is "a miracle." Worse, dark assumptions... Read more.

What safety measures make sense in the aftermath of a tragedy such as the Boston Marathon bombings? I'm not sure. But I am positive it's not the advice below, which was posted on Facebook, apparently by someone who was interviewed by a news show shortly after the horrific event: "If you love your kids, don't bring them into large crowds at high profile events. Yes, it stinks that you have to make... Read more.

My wife sometimes talks to her clothes as if they were people. "Well. You haven't been out in a while," she'll say in late spring, looking at a pair of open-toed shoes, cooing at them as she takes them from the floor of her closet. This is not, by itself, evidence of a slipping grip on reality. My pickup truck is named "Evangeline." Plenty of people have involved conversations... Read more.

They blend in. They don't make threats. They carefully plan their attacks rather than "snap." They may be quite sane. Their friends, acquaintances and relatives sometimes know they are planning to plant bombs or shoot their victims, but say nothing to authorities in advance. This is what I have learned about domestic terrorists and assassins by interviewing psychologists who currently work... Read more.