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Life Stories (page 154)

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

Amy Schumer (AP/John Salangsang/reductress.com/Salon)

A comedian walks into a "mob"

Silpa Kovvali
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/erhui1979'>erhui1979</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

White privilege as economics

Chauncey DeVega
FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The Pentagon announced Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, that fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were released to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest transfer of detainees during the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (AP)

the criminal injustice system

Judith Coburn - TomDispatch.com
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Yuliya+Savich'>Yuliya Savich</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My weekend in a (sort of) cult

Alice Bradley

islamophobia isn't going away

Waqas Mirza - Alternet
A Paint Nite Event.

Ready for the paint party?

Angelo Young
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Dmitry+Zimin'>Dmitry Zimin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

I don't want "mom friends"

Jessica Machado
Ryan Lochte (AP/Martin Meissner)

The ballad of "Swim Shady"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Patty Hearst leaves the San Francisco Federal Building, Feb. 13, 1976, during her trial on bank robbery charges. (AP)

Patty Hearst's crazy America

Andrew O'Hehir
"Bojack Horseman," "Lady Dynamite" (Netflix)

Laughing about mental illness

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A gas station in Milwaukee, August 14, 2016. (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

Milwaukee unrest: No surprise

Chauncey DeVega
Austin Kelly Harrouff (YouTube/A.Frost)

The "gentle giant" explodes

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Journalists surround American Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz, left, and Jack Conger, center, as they leave the police station at Rio International airport early Thursday Aug. 18, 2016. The two were taken off their flight from Brazil to the U.S. on Wednesday by local authorities amid an investigation into a reported robbery targeting Ryan Lochte and his teammates. According to their lawyer they will not be allowed to leave Brazil until they provide testimony about the robbery. (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel) (AP)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Mark Makela)

Hil must make health care push

Gary Legum
Donald Trump (AP/Richard Drew)

Trump's "alpha-male" paradox

David Masciotra
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/Nikada#14848fa6'>Nikada</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Ticket to happiness

Erin Coulehan
Lisa Hahner, Anna Hahner (Reuters/Sergio Moraes)

In praise of Olympian fun

Mary Elizabeth Williams
In this June 21, 2016 photo, a child peers from behind the door of her home, covered with Mara Salvatrucha gang graffiti, in Soyapango, El Salvador. After becoming the world's murder capital last year and posting an equally bloody start to 2016, El Salvador has seen its monthly homicide rates fall by about half. The government attributes the drop to a tough military crackdown on the country's powerful gangs, while the gangs themselves claim credit for a nonaggression pact between the three biggest criminal groups. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez) (AP)

Alistair Fraser - The Conversation
China's Cao Yuan and Qin Kai; Britain's Jack Laugher and Chris Mears hug after the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard diving final at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Aug. 10, 2016. (AP/Wong Maye-E)

Caught in a bad bromance?

Nico Lang
Eric Krex, 6, reacts as he is held by his mother, Margaret, while a nurse gives him a FluMist influenza vaccination (Photo/Chris Gardner)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Fu Yuanhui (Reuters/David Gray)

Olympic shocker: Periods exist

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Paul+Rich+Studio'>Paul Rich Studio</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Salon's social bootcamp

Kirsten Schofield
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Pavel+L+Photo+and+Video'>Pavel L Photo and Video</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Inside the Back-to-School Boom

Angelo Young
Volunteers pose for a photograph with a set of Olympic Rings inside Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Jaime Schultz - The Conversation
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