If ambition is ruining your life, you need to read Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau is the self-help guru I needed — and that America needs.

I’m not brave — I just have cancer

Here are 6 things I wish people would stop saying to me.

Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways.

I am both empathetic and angry. I get to be both.

My scary, awkward, hopeful conversation with my dad about why he voted for Trump

Everything was fine — until I brought up privilege.

White people: what is your plan for the Trump presidency?

White people elected Trump. And white people must fight the worst effects of his administration.

What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out.

I crowdfunded my own basic income — and it transformed my life.

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A letter to America from Leslie Knope, regarding Donald Trump

"People are unpredictable, and democracy is insane."

I’m a disabled American. Trump’s policies will be a disaster for people like me.

We can make some educated guesses on what Trump’s policies will be, and they don’t look good.

“My heart literally hurts”: Muslims, women, and people of color on Donald Trump’s victory

What’s it like to watch a man who insulted your culture get elected president of the United States? This is what it’s like.

A letter to my 6-year-old daughter after Hillary Clinton lost the presidency

"I want to teach you that when you’re faced with a bully, you don’t run away and you don’t hide."

Today’s election will not be rigged

Donald Trump is making dangerous, unfounded claims about election fraud.

I’m a comedian. I’m used to hecklers. But since Donald Trump, they’ve become intolerable.

I quit my dream job at Second City after an audience member complained that he was "sitting too close to a Mexican."

How the Trumps tried — and failed — to keep black families like mine out of their neighborhood

Donald Trump says the inner city is hell. He doesn't talk about his family's role in creating segregated neighborhoods.