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I remember thinking, when I turned 25, that my life might be pretty difficult from there on out.
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Every person who has never dealt with a mental illness has probably made at least one ignorant suggestion in a concerned moment. It doesn’t take long for people with depression to start hearing the train of banal platitudes about how exercise, social engagements, and healthy food can help them “beat” their diagnosis.
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In January 2017, Republicans will control both houses of Congress and the presidency. Yes, there are circumstances under which a candidate other than Donald Trump could assume the highest office in the U.S., but a revolt of the Electoral College, while legal, would be unprecedented.
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As the U.S. battens down the hatches for what looks to be a strange winter, one bioethicist wonders if declining birthrates could fix our climate problems. Johns Hopkins University professor Travis Rieder is the author of Toward a Small Family Ethic: How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation, in which he argues that childless-by-choice women might be poised to save the world.
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Hollywood, book publishing, and other media outlets are designed to give audiences stories that they will want to take in, but, all too often, the system that is used to determine whether or not a narrative will connect with readers and watchers — and, therefore, whether or not a particular story will ever see widespread distribution — neglects to consider the audience as a diverse blend of people who enjoy good stories.
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The biggest bombshell of the 2016 presidential election was not Hillary Clinton’s email troubles or Donald Trump’s loss of Twitter privileges. Instead, it was a study from University of Michigan researchers proving that misogyny is a bigger indicator of Trump support than racism.
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A Pew Research Center Survey conducted in early 2016 found that 62 percent of U.S. adults use social media as a news source, with most Reddit (70 percent), Facebook (66 percent), and Twitter users (59 percent) saying that they use their social media networks for news-gathering purposes.
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Just a few short weeks before Election Day 2016, a meme began to circulate claiming that Hillary Clinton supporters in Pennsylvania, an electoral vote-rich swing state, could vote from the comfort of their homes by tweeting the words “Hillary” and “#PresidentialElection” between 7 AM and 9 PM on November 8.
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As a person who possesses the conflicting traits of being both socially anxious and short-tempered, I worry that some small slip-up will cost me my say in the immediate future of our country.
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The air is getting crisp, everything tastes like apples and pumpkin spice, and Halloween is right around the corner, which means everyone is preoccupied with picking out the perfect costume.
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Across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of women and girls face a potentially endless shortage of life-saving medication. You likely haven’t heard about the crisis, however, because the injectable estrogen shortage disproportionately impacts trans women.
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I’ve been working from home since I graduated college, and I don’t think the responses from people who have just found out what I do for a living will ever change. Oh, wow, they want to work in their pyjamas, too; where do they sign up?
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