USA TODAY
Disclaimer: USA Today has partnered with AllSides and other bridging organizations, such as America Talks, to promote and support conversation events in which people on the left and right come together to bridge divides. This is work AllSides applauds and is a part of. This media bias rating page serves purely as an analysis of the bias of USA Today's news reporting; AllSides' bias analysis is independent, and partnerships with USA Today did not impact news bias analysis.
USA Today has published articles about AllSides' work, including:
USA Today has also published op-eds written by AllSides staff, including:
- Here's how technology can help reduce political polarization (Jan. 2020, CEO John Gable and Head Editor Henry A. Brechter)
- Political incivility is at crisis point in America. Here's how we can fix it (Nov. 2020, Brechter and COO Stephanie Bond).
- What Bruce Springsteen's Super Bowl ad gets right about reuniting Americans in 'the middle (Feb. 2021, Brechter)
Type of Content
Approved Story
1
Format
Region
News Item Format
Standard
They all cry, naked in their grief.
One woman can't speak without weeping. Another said she didn't expect to get emotional, but when she begins to talk about her mother she asks for a moment to right herself under the unsteadying weight of loss. Another remembers the last time she saw her mom, separated by glass, anguish braiding the breath that catches in her throat.
For people who lost their mothers to COVID-19, this Mother's Day is a reminder of a freshly gaping void. Some won't celebrate the day at all. Others will mark it quietly.
"Before this year, I always joked with my children and said Mother's Day was the most important day of the year," said Ashlyn Fox, whose mother and grandmother died of COVID-19 six days apart. "This year, I don't want it to exist at all. I want to pretend it doesn't exist."