Meghan Daum

The George Floyd video — if not the upheaval that followed — showed that agreement is possible, if also painful

This is the first time Gen Z and younger Millennials have had to confront virality as something that can kill more than your reputation

Almost 10 years ago, a fever escalated into something far worse. This pandemic taps right into my deepest fears.

It’s hard to get excited about a candidate who leans into how rigged the system is rather than inspiring hope

I know because I used to be a target of Limbaugh’s mix of lies, bombast, insults and bluster

Most of us move away from the soundtracks to our earlier lives. Thank God for the invention of podcasts.

Not every small infraction is worth punishing or the start of a slippery slope — in real life or online

More and more Americans are single and childless. This is why the holidays are great for us.

The strange appeal of the eat your oatmeal campaign from 2020’s most invisible, competent candidate

What a new documentary about the controversial professor tells us about the state of the arts

Trans activists pushed Always to rebrand their pads, and it’ll make things less ridiculously cutesy for everyone

7 tips from a professional costume designer to make your potentially culturally insensitive Halloween costume A-OK

We should be looking down on misogynists, not paying them attention they don’t deserve

You try writing a current affairs book in our bonkers news environment without tossing out hundreds of pages

Chappelle’s new special, Sticks and Stones, takes aim at the power of outrage mobs

I published a book about choosing not to have kids. But I’m not gloating and neither should you.

I tried it and I kinda loved it

Why did Elizabeth Warren find it necessary to declare her preferred gender pronouns?

Shouldn’t a rape allegation against the President be bigger news?

Writer and recovering Twitter-holic Robyn Kanner on social media call-out culture and making a human connection

The cynical truth about corporate enlightenment

A Gen Xer on the forgotten art of being lost in thought

My father died. Then my dog died. I’m not sure which variety of grief is worse.

As Jordan Peterson’s T-shirt-gate proves, it’s not just your political stand that matters, but who you stand with