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Life Stories (page 42)

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

(AP/Frank Franklin II)

Football is considered a deadly sport

John Affleck - The Conversation
(Getty/nightman1965)

Can't control the weather, even in war

David R. Petriello
Star on the Mountain in the Arctic Valley (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman James Richardson)

In winter darkness, a beacon of light

Zakiya McCummings - Salon Young Americans
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-240286p1.html'>photovibes</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-496606p1.html'>Julia Ivantsova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Why it's OK to live single

Bella DePaulo - The Conversation
Larry Nassar stands as he is sentenced by Judge Janice Cunningham (Getty/Scott Olson)

The costs of surviving sexual abuse

Marci Hamilton
Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta (right) and John Lewis (far right), lead a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965 (AP)

Desegregating blood

Thomas A Guglielmo - The Conversation
(Twitter/@MaajidNawaz)

Women in Iran again protesting the veil

Negar Mottahedeh
(Getty Images/Mario Tama)

South is the least healthy region in US

Jay Maddock - The Conversation
(Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Cynical millennial memes, explained

Deidre Olsen
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-68088p1.html'>John Michael Weidman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My daughter says her disability is love

Amy Silverman - Motherwell
Lance Lucas (Courtesy of the Author)

A glimpse of the black tech renaissance

D. Watkins
FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident, in the spillway downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (AP)

The race for molybdenum-99

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
(AP)

Unnecessary medical care common

Marshall Allen - ProPublica
(Getty/gradyreese)

Americans are staying home more

Ashok Sekar, Eric Williams - The Conversation
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (Wikimedia)

America's first black pop star

Adam Gustafson - The Conversation
Armed members of the Black Panthers Party in the Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967. (AP/Walt Zeboski)

Black nationalist women's hidden history

Keisha N. Blain - The Conversation
(Getty/Mark Wilson)

Trump targets low-income immigrants

Rachel Leah
(Wikimedia Commons)

Food stamps and health

Courtney Perkes - KFF Health News
(Shutterstock)

At Elon last

Justine Calma - Grist
(Getty/crankyT)

Promising male birth control

Gunda Georg, Jon Hawkinson, Shameem Syeda - The Conversation
FILE - In this March 18, 2016 file photo, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is seen at a tennis tournament in Indian Wells, Calif. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $210 million to the University of Washington to help build a new facility to advance efforts to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. The donation from the largest private foundation in the world is the largest single gift to the university. The contribution was announced Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) (AP)

How rich are the rich?

Gil B. Manzon Jr. - The Conversation
(Getty/Spencer Platt)

A Kansas Dreamer fights for immigrants

LaRissa Lawrie - Salon Young Americans
(Getty/stock-eye)

The mental health & loneliness paradox

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
(Salon/Peter Cooper)

The gender pay gap in the U.S.

Liz Posner - Alternet
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