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Mary Elizabeth Williams is a senior writer for Salon. She's written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and more, and is the author of "A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer." She has a certification in conflict resolution and is working on her doctoral degree in medical humanities.

Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman (ABC/Heidi Gutman)

How Meghan McCain changed “The View,” and how “The View” changed politics on TV

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Salon member comments of the week: “I’m atheist, not anti-theist”

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I didn’t teach my kids how to cook. Did I fail them?

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Salon’s reader comments of the week: “I’m saddened by what the Internet has become”

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I’m reading the comments again, after swearing them off 7 years ago

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"No Happy Endings: A Memoir" by Nora McInerny Purmort (Dey Street Books/Brandon Werth)

Nora McInerny rejects the cult of positivity that demands we get over grief: “Bitch, how?”

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Harlan Coben (Matthew Smith "Salon Talks")

Harlan Coben on why even bestselling authors get those self-loathing writer blues

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Salon’s reader comments of the week: “The arrogance of ignorance”

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Laurie Halse Anderson on writing “outside of your lane”: “Be prepared to do years of extra work”

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The college admissions con game has many victims: “The level of accommodation is obscene”

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Felicity Huffman (AP/Jordan Strauss)

“Who wants an elite institution anyway?”

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Jesse Eisenberg. Photography by Jill Greenberg, jillgreenberg.com. Find out more about Jill's initiative Alreadymade., a mission to hire more female photographers and content creators at alreadymade.org.

Jesse Eisenberg opens up: “I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person”

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Woolsey Hall stands on the Yale University campus on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. (AP/Pat Eaton-Robb)

The real scam of the elite college admissions game goes beyond Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin

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Gretchen Rubin (Matthew Smith "Salon Talks")

Gretchen Rubin on messy office kitchen politics: “A lot of passive-aggressive Dilbert cartoons”

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"Generation Citizen: The Power of Youth in Our Politics" by Scott Warren (Counterpoint/Rashidah De Vore)

“Voting is important but insufficient”: Scott Warren on youth power in politics

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Salon reader comments of the week: “This issue has fractured our community”

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Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle (Matthew Smith - "Salon Talks")

“PEN15” stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle: “We still feel like we’re in seventh grade”

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Paddleton (Netflix)

Would you help your good friend die? “Paddleton” is a road movie with a heavy destination

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"What Men Want;" "Russian Doll;" "Isn't It Romantic" (Paramount Pictures/Netflix/Warner Bros. Pictures)

The cosmic joke’s on her: The antiheroine’s journey through a cursed universe

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Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Getty/Kevin Winter)

Let’s never have an Oscars host again

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"Captain Marvel" (Disney)

Salon’s reader comments of the week: “Everything is culture-war politics”

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Salon’s reader comments of the week: “We are slapped with labels for everything”

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No, sex shouldn’t always be spontaneous. Salon’s “Sex Toast” host Ian Kerner explains why

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Mary Elizabeth Williams and Tina Brown (Salon Talks)

Tina Brown pulls no punches: “If you’re a woman, you have to be gold in a silver job”

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