Paranoia

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A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia
  • Glenn Beck stops making sense

    Beck: It's not the right wing's fault that crazy lefties are killing people to protest Obama's policies. Say what?
  • When panic attacks!

    America is the most anxious country on the planet. So will I ever learn to live with my fear, racing heart and disaster scenarios?
  • Lynda Barry

    Exposure
  • Dread comes to Pottery Barn

    As officials tell us to expect more terrorism, the nation's yuppies prepare.
  • On the right, ACORN paranoia never dies

    Michelle Malkin worries about President Obama's first nominee to the federal bench, who worked for the liberal group 30 years ago.
  • Fox News: We're unpresidented!

    TV journalist speculates on whether we are we without a president, thanks to Obama's flubbed oath.
  • Talkin' Paul Broun Paranoid Blues

    It takes a truly brave dissenter to grasp the extent of Barack Obama's hatred of freedom, motherhood and pie.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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