A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia
By Steve Almond Sep 12, 2009
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The Fox News host has -- honestly -- a 100-year plan to roll back the secret, massive socialist conspiracy
By Gabriel Winant
November 23, 2009
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America is the most anxious country on the planet. So will I ever learn to live with my fear, racing heart and disaster scenarios?
By Meredith Maran
June 12, 2008
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Exposure
October 24, 2001
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As officials tell us to expect more terrorism, the nation's yuppies prepare.
By Andrew Nelson
October 11, 2001
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Beck: It's not the right wing's fault that crazy lefties are killing people to protest Obama's policies. Say what?
By Gabriel Winant
June 11, 2009
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Michelle Malkin worries about President Obama's first nominee to the federal bench, who worked for the liberal group 30 years ago.
By Gabriel Winant
March 23, 2009
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TV journalist speculates on whether we are we without a president, thanks to Obama's flubbed oath.
By Gabriel Winant
January 20, 2009
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It takes a truly brave dissenter to grasp the extent of Barack Obama's hatred of freedom, motherhood and pie.
By Gabriel Winant
November 12, 2008
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All it takes are a couple of news reports and a few spores of panic to contaminate the sick bay.
By J.B. Orenstein
October 16, 2001
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A city reels -- and braces for the psychic fallout of its monstrous ordeal.
By Lauren Sandler
October 4, 2001
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The country becomes afraid and my alienation begins to fade.
By Gary Greenberg
September 26, 2001
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India's menacing monkey-man has New Delhi in hysterics and the rest of the world in stitches. What's more, the birth of the terrifying beast was inevitable.
By Chris Colin
May 25, 2001
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Readers respond to the top 10 lists from last week's Paranoia series.
February 21, 2001
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A Salon film critic picks her 10 favorite paranoia-inducing movies.
By Stephanie Zacharek
February 16, 2001
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The Golden State's helter-skelter soul has long been the fertile crescent of fear, but we're moving on now -- to something worse.
By Anthony York
February 16, 2001
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Some passengers looked up; others were oblivious. Me, I wondered how they were going to ship my corpse back East.
By Chris Colin
February 15, 2001
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The 10 remarks most likely to catch your attention -- and not in a good way.
By Carina Chocano
February 14, 2001
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From Joan of Arc to Oliver Stone, society has perfected the art of worrying about nothing.
By King Kaufman
February 13, 2001
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Nuclear paranoia fit perfectly with my adolescence in the '80s. Then one day, while I was writhing in the gutter, it simply stopped.
By Dana Hull
February 13, 2001
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Y2K never quite happened. When you're paranoid, that's a tough pill to swallow.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 12, 2001
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Salon's TV critic picks the 10 most paranoid TV shows of all time.
By Joyce Millman
February 12, 2001
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With a little paranoia and a vivid imagination, the Web can help you make the most unreasonable connections seem downright logical.
By Anthony York
October 2, 2000
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Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
By Laura Rozen
March 15, 2000
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At the moment she's a paranoid mom with white supremacist neighbors.
By Elissa Keeler Miller
January 11, 2000