When Kate Baer got pregnant, unexpectedly, with her fourth child, something shifted. “I had this decision to make,” explains the best-selling author. “Am I going to drown lose my life or am I going to completely change everything?”
Since 2012, Cognoscenti has published 4,800 pieces by some 1,100 authors. From Hillary Clinton’s shimmy to the case for cohousing, these are our 15 most-read pieces of all time.
When COVID-19 caught up to Cloe Axelson’s family in the final weeks of school with second grade field day at stake one of her twin daughters reminded her how, even after the past two years, plenty of things are worth fighting for.
We published hundreds of essays and commentaries this year. Here are the pieces that attracted the most readers, and took up the most space in our hearts and brains.
Highlights from the year that was on Cognoscenti: the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the tumultuous Trump era draws to a close, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a racial reckoning roils the U.S. and President-elect Joe Biden. (Getty and AP Images)
We wrongly presumed last January that the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump would be the biggest news story of the year. Clearly, 2020 had other ideas.
In the 450 pieces we published this year, we covered a national reckoning on race, a presidential primary season and general election, a warming climate, a Supreme Court vacancy, an immigration crisis on our Southern border, and of course, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.