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Life Stories (page 157)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

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My tiny house reality

Crystal Ponti
Pro-choice activists celebrate at the Supreme Court, June 27, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Next steps in abortion fight

Eesha Pandit
Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque (AP/Jordan Strauss)

"I felt terrible"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2015, the U.S. government said Zika infections have been confirmed in nine pregnant women in the United States. All got the virus overseas. Three babies have been born, one with a brain defect. (James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Hillary Clinton, pictured in 1992. (Reuters/Win McNamee)

How times have changed

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hilton's "Stop Clicking Around" ad (Hilton)

Hilton shows gay couple in ad

Mary Elizabeth Williams

"Food has a body image issue"

Michael Garofalo
Michelle Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. (Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich)

How Michelle's Speech Was Made

Silpa Kovvali
Donald Trump (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Trump's Big Gay Con

Nico Lang
(Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich)

Party like it's 1992!

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Barack Obama delivers the keynote speech during the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, July 27, 2004. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Obama reclaimed patriotism

David Masciotra
Bill O'Reilly (AP/Richard Drew)

Bill O'Reilly's slavery denial

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/Diane%20Diederich'>Diane Diederich</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Out of the mouths of babes

Sarit Luban
Michelle Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

FLOTUS's dignified restraint

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A man holds a child in the window of a shelter at the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, Sunday, June 19, 2016. Since the start of the Syrian war, 4.8 million people have fled the country, with 655,000 taking refugee in country, 80,000 of which reside in Zaatari, the largest of Jordan's three refugee camps. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil) (AP)

america's eternal war

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

Escape into pop culture

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tim Kaine (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Tim Kaine's abortion record

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Craig Lassig/Reuters)

black lives of all ages matter

Elaine Weiss - BillMoyers.com
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The gift of privacy

Annie H. Hartnett
Crime labs are being set back by Jeff Session's order to shut down The National Commission on Forensic Science (<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/takahashi_kei'>takahashi_kei</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

In my genes

David Updike
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Our fading friend-requests

Sarah Sweeney
Eric Frederick Trump; Eric Frederick Trump (Courtesy of the author/AP/Richard Drew)

Dear Eric Trump, I am not you

Eric Trump
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Self-care isn't apathy

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Michelle Obama on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" (CBS)

Michelle Obama, American icon

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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