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Articles by
Melissa Balmain
Melissa Balmain is a writer, teacher, and recovering mime. She edits Light, the country’s longest-running journal of comic verse. Her latest book is The Witch Demands a Retraction: Fairy Tale Reboots for Adults (Humorist Books).
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July 21, 2022Hemingway Updated for the Post-Roe Generation
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June 4, 2021What Some Poets Would Say If They Were Around for National Donut Day
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April 1, 2021Six Hundred Years of History Explained by April Fools’ Day
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June 11, 2014Who Are You Really?
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June 25, 2013Before You Drop Your Child Off at Camp Honestee, You MUST Sign This Waiver
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March 10, 2025As an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia University
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March 18, 2025Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
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March 13, 2025It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
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March 12, 2025DOGE-Inspired Spring Cleaning