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Life Stories

On the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, the municipality of Canaan extends. This was created after the earthquake on 12 January 2010, which killed more than 220 000 people in the poor Caribbean state. Today around 300,000 people live there. (Nick Kaiser/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Voices from Haiti, after the earthquake

Edwidge Danticat
A woman holds melons in her shirt. (Getty Images)

The politics of my cleavage

Elizabeth Covington
Tabitha at Disneyland (Courtesy of author)

Disneyland with my invisible guest

Tabitha Blankenbiller
Left: Steve and Tina; Right: Andra and Ona (Photos courtesy of the author)

Life in the house of alternative facts

Ona Gritz
Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein (AP/Getty Images/Salon)

Best of 2019: Friends of Jeffrey Epstein

Jesse Kornbluth
Gold Dress (Getty/cunfek)

Quinceañera with baby fever

Jennifer Givhan
Los Angeles Police SWAT officers, and Los Angeles firemen wearing bulletproof helmets, evacuate a child, after a gunman barricaded himself inside a Trader Joe's store in Los Angeles, July 21, 2018. (AP/Damian Dovargane)

What a hostage survivor knows of trauma

Lynnie Westafer
Ray Gootz (Alex Valderana)

I lost my virginity at 37

Ray Gootz
(Kayla Jean)

How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan

Trapper Schoepp
Statues of the Virgin Mary (Getty Images/Peter Ptschelinzew)

The mystery of my missing Virgin Mary

Sonja Livingston
Santa Claus in Los Angeles (Getty Images/iStock/Salon)

A hired Santa's Christmas in Los Angeles

Brad Griffith
Dancers (Getty Images)

The last time I danced

Rachel Leah
Open bible in church (Getty Images)

My priest was an accused abuser

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Father and two daughters taking a walk down the street (Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Having a kid means I have to move away

D. Watkins
Graham Caldwell and Mark Ruffalo (Brigid Kaelin)

Our family's "Dark Waters" cancer story

Brigid Kaelin
Caroll Spinney with 'Big Bird' during Florida Supercon at the Broward County Convention Center on Friday, July 13, 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Photo by (Michele Eve Sandberg/Invision/AP)

Big Bird was my pen pal

CJ Casciotta
Minutemen pass through a stretch of remote Sonoran desert that has been damaged by groups of migrants having to discard clothing and medicine on their journey north. Thirty miles from the Mexican border, Minutemen volunteers from across America spend time patrolling a large private ranch in the Altar Valley of southern Arizona, searching for "illegal" migrants making their way north through the harsh desert terrain. Although most of the Minutemen carry guns, they are under strict instructions to not chase or apprehend migrants, but instead to report sightings to the border patrol. | Location: Three Points, Arizona, USA. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

"Finding the bones was heartbreaking"

Christine Hannigan
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

How Trump Ruined Christmas

Amanda Marcotte

Fired from the New York Times over Trump

Carlos Cunha
40th Birthday Cake (Getty Images)

I never planned on seeing 40

D. Watkins
Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU (Virginia Sherwood/NBC)

Olivia Benson isn't coming to see me

JoAnne Silver Jones
The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base on October 16, 2018. (Sylvie Lanteaume/AFP via Getty Images)

Inside the Guatánamo prisoner name leak

Peter Jan Honigsberg
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (Simon & Schuster)

Saeed Jones on fighting for our lives

D. Watkins
Writing dark themes after becoming a parent (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

On mothers and monsters

Amber Cowie
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