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More than 9 million Americans consider suicide every year. I’m one of them.

How concerned should I be about these thoughts? I decided to find out.

I taught my 5th-graders how to spot fake news. Now they won’t stop fact-checking me.

It’s more important than ever to teach kids how to read news critically.

I have cancer. This comic shows how much pressure I feel to be a hero.

Not everyone can be the perfect cancer survivor.

We're the only daily news source in our part of rural Alaska. Trump's budget would devastate us.

The idea of defunding public media in the United States, as President Trump’s new budget proposes, is nothing new according to Shane Iverson, “but it’s serious every time it happens.” Iverson is...

What it’s like to be 13 and have your mom detained in an immigration raid

The day of the raid was awful. But that was just the beginning.

I played an “evil American wife” in a North Korean propaganda film

A documentarian goes deep in the North Korea film industry.

I did speed dating — for friendship. Then I realized meeting people is the easy part.

True friendship forces you to keep coming back, even when it’s hard. Am I willing to do that?

I've served more than 15,000 Meals on Wheels. It's about way more than food.

It’s about companionship for people who really need it.

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Sexism in the workplace is real: a story from two perspectives

We switched names. And all of a sudden, clients started treating us much differently.

Unless you’ve lived without health insurance, you have no idea how scary it is

Every day without an emergency is a relief.

I came out to my mom as trans. Then she came out as trans, too.

It made it easier to find out she was going through the same thing.

My conversations with Russians about Donald Trump

"Our government is just like your government, concerned with only one thing — power."

I was a Marine. I can’t be silent about the sexual harassment I faced anymore.

I still remember carrying a knife into the showers with me.

I learned how to do math with the ancient abacus — and it changed my life

Four ways the abacus transformed the way I think about learning.

The typography fix that could have stopped the Oscars Best Picture blunder

I’m a typography expert. The Oscars flub came down to bad design.