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Staff writer at Splinter, covering politics, influence, and healthcare. I've written for Gizmodo, the Sunlight Foundation, NYMag, Gawker, Broadly, and the Atlantic.
I had my first migraine when I was 10, on vacation with my dad at a resort in France. Being with my dad and his wife always meant pretending to cope, which turns out to be good preparation for life as a migraine sufferer.
In the wake of the child separation policy at the border, the government's bizarre legal approach to migration has been thrown into the spotlight. Crossing an invisible line is a crime considered so heinous that ripping children away from their parents, and losing them indefinitely, is apparently justified.
A few weeks ago, Bloomberg published a damning piece about how the DCI Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm, creates phony echo chambers to help push its clients' interests. For example, it created a 'coalition' of groups to support its campaign against Argentina on behalf of the country's Wall Street bondholders, who wanted their money back.
The last seven weeks have been some of the least painful I've lived since I was 16 years old. Normally, I have an incapacitating migraine roughly once a week andspend many otherdayseach month enduring pounding, painful, and tiresome headaches that threaten to turn into full-blown migraines.
A few minutes before 11 on a recent Saturday morning, at least a hundred people lined up outside the Pasadena Convention Center, sweating in the blazing California sun, squinting in the light and trying to figure out how much longer the wait would be.
Do you ever feel not so fresh, down there? Or do you worry about your flappy ol' ham sandwich being a little too slack? After all, as thousands of years of misogynistic bullshit would tell us, Loose Lips Sink Relationships.
The 2018 midterms have seen a huge number of Democrats pledge not to take money from corporate PACs. It's a sign of the times: The Bernie Sanders-style rejection of money in politics is taking root among Democrats in a year when insurgent candidates from all walks of life are running, including a record number of women.
Last week, we asked you to send in details of the insurance plans you purchased on the Affordable Care Act exchanges. We received more than 70 messages, mostly all with the same theme: This shit is too expensive, and it sucks.
My mother has lung cancer. At the end of last year, she began feeling breathless and tired, struggling with walks around the village I grew up in; in March, we found out a tumor was to blame. When she was diagnosed, I found myself constantly writing about it in my head in a distinct Writing Voice.
An interview with George Lawlor, a student from Warwick University, whose opinion piece objecting to consent classes went viral.