Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, M.D. and Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center, share insights on the characteristics of mass killers and the ethical responsibilities of news organizations as they help the public make sense of the shooting rampage in Arizona that left six dead and a U.S. Congresswoman grievously injured.

In the first of a series of fiery suicides by Buddhist monks, Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. June 11, 1963. This photograph aroused worldwide outrage and hastened the end of the Diem government.

Seven years after the beginning of the Iraq war - and with U.S. troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeding 5,000 - a look at some of the bedrooms America's young war dead left behind.

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Read this article about the magazine's apology for a native Scientology ad. What do you think?

Make a habit of listening to this excellent NPR show.

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