Hypomania

The Mayo Clinic on Monday announced that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has bipolar disorder, the clearest indication so far of what's kept the veteran South Side lawmaker on medical leave and out of the public eye for more than two months. But Jackson's family,...

At first, there were whispers. Where was Jesse Jackson Jr.? Was he drying out in rehab? Was he being treated for exhaustion? And soon, whispers grew into partisan shouts. Was the congressman ducking a U.S. House ethics probe into his dealings with...

Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls has the women at Jezebel worried. "We were hoping that Newt Gingrich might drop out of the presidential race and retreat back to the '90s, from whence he came," writes Margaret Hartmann. No such......

He spent too much time sitting alone in bars, drinking beer with his face to the wall. He fell for an underage girl whose father disapproved of his bohemian ways, and between smoking, brooding and picking up a venereal disease during his reckless youth,...

Catherine Zeta-Jones wife of Michael Douglas, has been treated for bipolar disorder, her publicist said Wednesday. "After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility for a brief stay to...