Author: Natalia Antonova

No matter what anybody tells you, cancel culture is real — though it disproportionally affects more vulnerable people, as opposed to wealthy celebrities. I’ve felt its effects on my work efforts...

The writer Mikhail Bulgakov, a fellow native of Kyiv, called the year 1918 “great and terrible.” A little over a century later, 2021 was that kind of year for me — and for many of you too. From...

As the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch put it so well recently, forgetting about the concept of the public good is a major problem for us Americans — and it struck me that the ordeal of Robert...

Recently, a conservative Twitter account put a non-binary professor at Old Dominion University on blast. It would seem like a familiar story of conservatives trashing someone who is different......

I had to scrap my regular column today and start anew. Someone very close to me has just been diagnosed with Covid. They refused the vaccine even after my father tragically succumbed to the virus. As...

A long time ago, I had a charming friend who was very concerned with propriety. He only went to the right kind of dinner parties. He only liked the right kind of chatter underneath his Facebook...

Living in DC with a name like “Natalia Antonova” means that self-important men who don’t know any state secrets whatsoever keep suspecting you of trying to “compromise” them. Yet every once...

The other day, I discovered, via yet another excellent ProPublica investigation, that among Facebook's many mortal sins, it has outsourced moderating its Marketplace to underpaid Accenture...

It’s very hard to write a column about mental health in America when a bunch of Americans are busy ingesting horse paste as a substitute for a free, widely available, and safe Covid-19 vaccine....