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This Advice Column Was So Bad That Slate Actually Deleted It
But I am here to take it seriously!
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You Had An Affair. Should You Confess To Your Spouse?
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One Woman Hates Her Friend's Kids. Another Hates Her Own Kid. I Have Advice For Both.
It can be sexist to tell women to calm down but in this case they really should.
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How A Pandemic Puppy Taught Me To Accept Being Loved
A very Disney story.
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When did this political moment begin?
And would you change it?
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The segment that got Don Lemon fired was everything wrong with cable news
If you think this was a good interview, you have worms in your brain.
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The Social Media Era Of News Is Over. It Probably Didn't Happen Soon Enough.
Thoughts on the news industry.
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A Calm Down Audio Story: My First Murder
Listen now (12 min) | (It wasn't a human. Relax.)
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Calm Down
Calm Down
A substack about how the internet is making us all crazy.
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