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Life Stories (page 146)

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

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Appetite for destruction

Samuel Blackstone
(Getty/Spencer Platt)

How bail rewards abusers

Eesha Pandit
"Nightmare on Elm Street" (New Line Cinema)

The psychos down the street

Kevin Smokler
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Please let my kid be bored

Dena Landon
Kenneth Bone in the second presidential debate (Getty/Tasos Katopodis)

The rise and fall of Ken Bone

Nico Lang
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Sign Language: Your horoscope

Madalyn Aslan
Rush Limbaugh; Donald Trump; Joe Scarborough (Getty/Ethan Miller/Reuters/Mike Segar/Getty/Frederick M. Brown/Salon)

Are women people?

Amanda Marcotte
Still from "Christine" (The Orchard)

Spectacle of televised death

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Illeana Douglas (Getty/Kevin Winter)

Hollywood sexism hurts society

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Michael Sabbie is restrained by guards, shortly before his death at Bi State Jail in Texarkana, Texas.

See no evil: Michael Sabbie

Chauncey DeVega
In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, a wedding dress made in 1844 is displayed at the "American Brides: Inspiration and Ingenuity," exhibition in Denton, Texas. (AP)

Xuan Li - The Conversation
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Moms, girls, beauty and brains

Alli Joseph
(Wikicommons)

Jay L. Zagorsky - The Conversation
(Getty/Jonathan Brizendine)

Michael Adams - The Conversation

Kwame on Trump: He is a racist

D. Watkins
Donald Trump (Getty/Scott Olson)

The Prince of White Privilege

Chauncey DeVega
(Simon & Schuster/Maarten de Boer)

Jennifer Weiner: Hungry Heart

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Olivia Reme - The Conversation
Billy Bush (AP/MediaPunch)

Billy Bush likely out at Today

Matthew Rozsa
Peggy Orenstein; Donald Trump (HarperCollins/Michael Todd/Getty/Dominick Reuter/Photo montage by Salon)

"Abusive, aggressive behavior"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Shot of two people holding hands in comfort (Getty/PeopleImages)

The forgiveness tour

Susan Shapiro
Ta'Sina Sapa Win of South Dakota's Cheyenne River Reservation chants in front of police during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline outside Saint Anthony, North Dakota, October 5, 2016. (Reuters/Terray Sylvester)

It's 1492 all over again

Alli Joseph

Salon Staff
Andrew Jackson; John Wayne; Christopher Columbus (Wikimedia/Paramount Pictures/Salon)

Waking from a John Wayne dream

Mark Trecka
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