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Kamala Harris was asked a very simple question to start off the debate this Tuesday night: Do you think that Americans are ...

The ridiculousness of Trump's debate comments is best summed up with a reader's spot-on satire, plus more from Opinion.

Abbott stood trial in August 1867 and was committed to Taunton State Hospital, a lunatic asylum in Massachusetts. After that, little is known, and details surrounding the case remain mysterious.

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny ...

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Psychiatry was an infant science" In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and sensitively revealing the stories of those who lived at the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

The West Virginia Penitentiary and Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum are terrifying ... yet mysterious part of Monroe Township ...

He claimed migrants and asylum seekers were “coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums.” He repeated this claim at the ...

Bly would pose as an insane woman and allow herself to be committed to Blackwell's Island -- New York City's notorious asylum. What resulted was a searing exposé that got the attention of ...

The new hard-right Dutch government pledged Tuesday to launch stricter policies to hold back or kick out migrants who don’t ...