Paranoia

Lynda Barry
Exposure
An epidemic of fear hits the E.R.
All it takes are a couple of news reports and a few spores of panic to contaminate the sick bay.
Dread comes to Pottery Barn
As officials tell us to expect more terrorism, the nation's yuppies prepare.
The trauma to come
A city reels -- and braces for the psychic fallout of its monstrous ordeal.
Paranoid like me
The country becomes afraid and my alienation begins to fade.
Show me the monkey!
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.
Paranoia's best, revisited
Readers respond to the top 10 lists from last week's Paranoia series.
Now playing at the angstplex
A Salon film critic picks her 10 favorite paranoia-inducing movies.
Caliparanoia dreamin'
The Golden State's helter-skelter soul has long been the fertile crescent of fear, but we're moving on now -- to something worse.
Riding the Cottonmouth Express -- to hell
Some passengers looked up; others were oblivious. Me, I wondered how they were going to ship my corpse back East.
You don't say
The 10 remarks most likely to catch your attention -- and not in a good way.
They've been watching us all along
From Joan of Arc to Oliver Stone, society has perfected the art of worrying about nothing.
Bring back the bomb!
Nuclear paranoia fit perfectly with my adolescence in the '80s. Then one day, while I was writhing in the gutter, it simply stopped.
Bunker fever
Y2K never quite happened. When you're paranoid, that's a tough pill to swallow.
Who's watching who?
Salon's TV critic picks the 10 most paranoid TV shows of all time.
How to build your own conspiracy theory
With a little paranoia and a vivid imagination, the Web can help you make the most unreasonable connections seem downright logical.
Paranoid city
Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
Where is the dyed-blond stoner chick in the '74 Cougar?
At the moment she's a paranoid mom with white supremacist neighbors.
Taking a chance on love
Suddenly, we would be allowed to adopt a baby -- if we could accept the very real possibility that, one day, he would be mentally ill.
Web of doom
Post-Littleton, paranoid media pundits seem blind to the line between the computer screen and reality -- just like the killers.
Why bad things happen to good people in politics
A veteran of America's political trenches explains why public service has become a dirty term -- and how we can clean up the system

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