Natalie Gontcharova's Recent Articles

People tend to dole out a lot of unsolicited advice to pregnant people, and sometimes it can be hard to cut through the noise in order to make the right de

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The Supreme Court Is Now Poised To Overturn Roe v. Wade —...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. This case pre

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Food & Drinks

Eating Pasta Off Your Counter Is Good, Actually

A viral video featuring a woman serving an entire spaghetti-and-meatballs dinner on her huge, white marble kitchen island is making its rounds on the inter

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Work & Money

Mother’s Day Has Always Been Complicated, But The Pandemic ...

For years now, I’ve dreaded Mother’s Day. Part of the reason is that the seemingly obligatory social media posts have always made me feel isolated. In

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US News

Meet The Organizers Who Serve (& Have Been Serving) Asian America...

These activists are doing the essential on-the-ground work in Asian American communities.

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News

Can Maya Wiley Break New York City’s Glass Ceiling?

In the early 1970s, when Maya Wiley was in first grade, attending a de facto segregated, underfunded public school in Washington, D.C., a boy named Carlos

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News

100 Days Later, What Has Biden Actually Done?

Everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Ai-jen Poo to youth organizers weighs in.

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News

D.C.’s Lack Of Statehood Is An Issue Of White Supremacy. He...

For Ty Hobson-Powell, his hometown of D.C. means go-go music, basketball culture, and mumbo sauce. The city is not the monuments or what you see on CNN for

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News

What We Know About The Police Killing Of 16-Year-Old Ma’Khi...

On Tuesday, just minutes before Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, police in Columbus, OH, released bodycam footage of an officer sh

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Work & Money

What It’s Really Like To Be A Flight Attendant During COVID

As spring break season comes to an end, it’s abundantly clear that hotspots like Miami’s South Beach have seen plenty of crowded parties — often indo

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News

Want To Defund The Police? Here’s How To Help

The movement to defund the police is gaining unprecedented support right now for good reason.

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News

In America, Getting Back To “Normal” Brings Fears Of ...

It should not be normal to know that every time you go to the grocery store or your local coffee shop, somebody could gun you down and kill you, or that yo

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News

A Man Was Arrested Outside Of Kamala Harris’ House With A R...

Police arrested a man outside of Vice President Kamala Harris’ official residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, accord

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Wellness

The Pandemic Put Our Lives On Pause. So We’re Window-Shoppi...

Elizabeth, 38, has been thinking about only one thing since last spring: moving her family to Portugal. But, neither she nor her husband, who she says is o

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Wellness

Congratulations, Our Sense Of Time Has Been Off For A Year Now

Lately I’ve been structuring my whole day in Google Calendar, dedicating each neatly segmented block of time to writing a story, exercising, and even thi

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Wellness

From Atlas To Luna, Here’s How The Pandemic Has Changed Bab...

During my pregnancy, I’ve suffered from more than the occasional bout of insomnia, leading to me scrolling the baby app What to Expect at 2 a.m. more oft

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Wellness

Yes, The COVID “Baby Bust” Is Real — Unless You’...

The “baby boom” predicted at the beginning of the pandemic is now widely acknowledged to have been a baby bust. Though there was an assumption that peo

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News

Kayleigh McEnany Will Feel Right At Home In Her New Job At...

Former White House Press Secretary. Harvard Law JD. Compulsive liar. Now, Kayleigh McEnany can add “Fox News contributor” to her Twitter bio. On Tuesda

by Natalie Gontcharova

Food & Drinks

What Is The Right Way To Eat A Banana? A Very Serious Investigation

Yesterday I was minding my business and eating a banana for an afternoon snack, when my husband walked in, immediately gave me a horrified look, and exclai

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News

What Will The Rest Of 2021 Look Like Politically?

The start of 2021 has been characterized by a mix of cautious optimism and straight-up fear. We may finally be out of the woods with the Trump presidency ?

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News

“Georgia Is The Future”: Meet The Women Who Flipped T...

Georgia is the “center of the political universe right now,” Way to Win president and cofounder Tory Gavito tells us in a conversation about the state?

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News

Meet 6 Young Women Who Will Be Keeping The White House Running

Vice President Kamala Harris made history when she took office, but she is not the only one to do so in the new administration. Not only has President Joe

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News

Biden Has Been President For A Couple Hours. Here Are All The Cha...

Just two weeks after a terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol, watching the pomp and circumstance of the inauguration of 46th President Joseph R. Biden felt

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News

Bye, Don — You Changed The Presidency & Brought Out The Worst In ...

As Donald Trump’s presidency sputters to its much-anticipated conclusion, few people doubt that he’ll be remembered as the worst president in U.S. hist

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News

Pramila Jayapal: “We Don’t Know If We Can Trust Our R...

On Wednesday, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal and 231 of her fellow congresspeople voted to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection at

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