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

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Lindsay Abrams
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Scrap the Pledge of Allegiance

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Steve Baer's "Zomework": High-efficiency, passive, solar-heated homes in New Mexico. (Boyd Norton, U.S. National Archives)

Lindsay Abrams
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New York Times wealth porn

Roxane Gay
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Amherst College, College Row (Wikimedia)

Mike Konczal - Next New Deal
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Corinne Purtill - GlobalPost
Denton initially shod the Mantis in modified go-kart tires. "They worked out really well," he notes, "but they weren't very grippy." So he fabricated custom rubber feet, modeling the hexagonal pattern after off-road tires. Now he alternates shoes based on the terrain. (Matt Denton)

GREGORY MONE - Popular Science

Jason Mark - Earth Island Journal
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George Zimmerman (AP/Gary W. Green)

Associated Press
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Why didn't I self-publish?

Cary Tennis

Big Pharma's African genocide

Andrew O'Hehir
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My daughter's piercing

Natalie Serber
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Koren Zailckas

Katie McDonough

Lisa Gulasy
(Associated Press)

Katie McDonough
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"They are good parents."

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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MDMA isn't the enemy

Anonymous
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Katie McDonough
(Business Wire)

Lindsay Abrams
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Pat Robertson (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

10 Wild Christian conspiracies

Amanda Marcotte - Alternet
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Katie McDonough
Yogurt (Rainer Zenz)

Associated Press
(CBC News)

College kids cheer sex abuse

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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