SLATE // APRIL, 2016
Comcast and others are using more contract workers to install their services. That means brutal hours, low wages, and an app that schedules every moment of their days.
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REDBOOK // MARCH, 2016
There are women across this country suffering—and, yes, dying—from cancers that people don’t like to talk about and that doctors have a hard time diagnosing and treating. Does that sound like a world we should be …
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE // FEBRUARY, 2016
Our daughter started life on a feeding tube. Then we tried to wean her off it — and began to understand the complexity of how children relate to food.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE // JANUARY, 2016
John and Sherry Petersik built a cult following with their website. Then they attempted to walk away.
SELF // October, 2015
We grew up believing that milk does a body good. Now a dairy backlash is causing a stir. SELF investigates who, if anyone, should be giving it up.
SELF // JULY 2015
Clean has become the new thin as women obsess about the energy and health boost they feel by getting rid of toxins and fighting inflammation with food. Its popularity is easy to understand — what’s hard …
REAL SIMPLE // APRIL, 2015
Have we replaced real friendships and civic participation with Facebook likes and hashtag activism? And are we too far gone to fix it? Here’s the expert take on why face-to-face connections are so crucial (particularly …
BUZZFEED // MARCH, 2015
I’d always been self-conscious about my abdomen. When I got endometriosis, everyone else became conscious of it too.
MARIE CLAIRE // DECEMBER, 2014
Fourteen million American women struggle with a low sex drive, yet the FDA hasn’t approved any medications to help them. But is women’s sexuality just too complicated for a pill?
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