In a New York Daily News profile, artisanal pencil sharpener, comedian, and Melville House author David Rees describes how he got into the business. Hint: It had nothing to do… 2 / Read more »

Self-help author James A. Ray has been sentenced to two years in prison for a sweat-lodge “purification” that led to the deaths of three of his followers. As an Associated… Read more »

The debate over government workers, their benefits, and whether they should have collective bargaining rights has reinvigorated the labor movement since workers took over the Wisconsin capitol building to protest their… Read more »

Worried because “Nine out of 10 people with mild or moderate depression do not receive any treatment at all,” doctors in Devon, England, are prescribing something other than medication: self-help… Read more »