The Frame The Lindsay Clancy trial, now in its fourth week of rebuttal, forces the nation to confront a stark reality: the legal narrative surrounding a mother’s alleged atrocity is inseparable from the nation’s crumbling commitment to mental health. In a year when President Donald Trump has returned to the White House on a platform of law‑and‑order and deregulated industry, the courtroom has become a stage where the veneer of due process meets the raw, unfiltered anxiety of a society that can no longer reliably nurture its most vulnerable citizens. The specter of postpartum psychosis, invoked by the defense, is not merely a medical footnote; it is a barometer of institutional failure that reverberates through the halls of power, the corridors of private clinics, and the lived experiences of millions of families. The Signal Most observers see the defense’s psychiatric witness as a desperate attempt to humanize a monster, but the deeper pattern...