Anne Helen Petersen

MSNBC Columnist

Anne Helen Petersen is an MSNBC columnist and the author of Culture Study, which you can subscribe to here. She wrote “Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.” Her Instagram is filled with her two pretty good dogs, Peggy and Steve. 


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Anne Helen Petersen

5years ago
Opinion

How to prepare for a post-Covid-19 vaccine world

Like the government’s handling of Covid-19, the vaccine rollout and everything that follows feels opaque.

5years ago
Opinion

The pandemic is starving us. Communities — not the government — are stepping up.

Ad hoc community initiatives are filling the gaps where the government is failing millions of hungry Americans.

5years ago
Opinion

The 2020 election has terrorized America. But here’s our silver lining.

The Trump administration has spent four years dismantling already broken systems; whether Trump wins or loses, we have a fight ahead of us.

5years ago
Opinion

Are you suffering from 2020 election burnout? You’re not alone.

Covid-19 depleted our bodies’ ability to process stress months ago. Then election season arrived.

5years ago
Opinion

We’re just beginning to understand the extent of Covid-19’s feminist nightmare

Covid-19 is driving women out of work and back into the role of homemaker.