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Allison Quinn is a former news editor and reporter for the Daily Beast. She spent nearly a decade in Moscow and Kyiv reporting on human trafficking, corruption, Russia’s opposition, and the war in eastern Ukraine.

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Want to Know ‘How I’m Coping’ With My Terminally Ill Child?

PERSONAL ESSAY

If you have to ask the question, you have to be prepared for the worst in response.

Allison Quinn | Published Apr 12, 2025
opinion

RFK Jr. DOGEd Best Hope of Spotting My Son’s Brutal Disease

CARELESS PEOPLE

HHS axed a committee on detecting rare inherited diseases. What could go wrong? Let me tell you.

Allison Quinn | Published Apr 05, 2025
opinion

My Son’s Disease Means I Know the Price of Idiots’ Mistakes

STUPID EXTINCTION

My son is 8 and doctors are saving his life but worries we can go extinct from stupidity. He’s not wrong.

Allison Quinn | Published Mar 29, 2025
opinion

My Son Is the Envy of Anti-Vaxxers Everywhere

SATIRE

Good riddance, childhood immunizations. My son is now un-vaccinated and getting a second chance. All he had to do was undergo a horrific bone marrow transplant.

Allison Quinn | Published Mar 17, 2025
opinion

It Took My 8-Year-Old Son Making a Bomb Threat to Wake Me Up

PERSONAL ESSAY

After being told we could leave the hospital following my son’s bone marrow transplant I figured we were due for some bad news. Then my son threatened to blow up the doctors and nurses treating him.

Allison Quinn | Published Mar 08, 2025

Why My Son Is Lucky Even as He Fights for His Life

A MOTHER'S LOVE

Doctors on their rounds routinely ask how my son is feeling, and my answer is always “OK.” He’s “OK” in the sense that he’s still breathing on his own and not, as far as I can see, getting any worse.

Allison Quinn | Published Mar 02, 2025

How Dare Elon Musk Label My 8-Year-Old Son a ‘Parasite’

personal essay

Musk has claimed his DOGE bros were all about “cutting government waste” and rooting out “massive fraud.” But then the mask slipped.

Allison Quinn | Published Feb 16, 2025
opinion

What to Do When Your Child Asks to Die

PERSONAL ESSAY

My eight-year-old son is enduring a form of torture more commonly known as a bone marrow transplant. I wasn’t ready for the one complication that should’ve been obvious.

Allison Quinn | Published Feb 09, 2025
opinion

What Not to Say to Me When My Son Is Fighting for His Life

PERSONAL ESSAY

My 8-year-old son this week started chemotherapy that may save his life, and people keep describing me with one word that feels like a consolation prize.

Allison Quinn | Published Feb 01, 2025
opinion

Why I Am Trolling Teens on Roblox as My Son Faces Death

PERSONAL ESSAY

It sounds bad when you put it that way. Or any way. But there’s a method to the madness.

Allison Quinn | Published Jan 25, 2025

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