As 2021 comes to a close, it is difficult to say whether humanity has progressed much in the past twelve months. For all the medical advances in treating COVID-19, we were set back by misinformation ...

This essay was originally published in Salon on January 30, 2021. We're revisiting Salon's Best Life Stories of 2021 now through the end of the year. Read more here. I have to start this off by ...

While COVID-19 was the most conspicuous science story of 2021, it may not have been the one with the most significant long-term consequences. This is not to say that the pandemic wasn’t continually ...

Sorkin aside, some queer performers came out okay, on some level, in the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year that was 2021. So did our stories: specifically, nonbinary characters and performers ...

How's it hanging? Me, I've been dragging since September.That's the way 2021 has rolled for all of us – we swung into it with great expectations only to leave it shriveled and deflated, like the ...

This essay was originally published in Salon on September 25, 2021. We're revisiting Salon's Best Life Stories of 2021 now through the end of the year. Read more Best of 2021 here. During the first ...

The common wisdom about the “hot take” — the derisive term for a provocative but poorly argued position — is that it persists because social media algorithms don’t really distinguish between people ...

This essay was originally published in Salon on October 23, 2021. We're revisiting Salon's Best Life Stories of 2021 now through the end of the year. Read more Best of 2021 here. I’ve always had sex ...

This essay was originally published in Salon on April 3, 2021. We're revisiting Salon's Best Life Stories of 2021 now through the end of the year. Read more Best of 2021 here. Over the last two weeks, ...