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Rhaina Cohen

Washington, D.C., United States

Producer and Editor at NPR

📚 bestselling author of THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center 🎧 producer/editor @NPREmbedded @NEHgov Public Scholar 🌈

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  • Nov 12, 2024 | ted.com | Rhaina Cohen

    By Rhaina Cohen Get a daily email featuring the latest talk, plus a quick mix of trending content. By subscribing, you understand and agree that we will store, process and manage your personal information according to our Privacy Policy

  • Nov 7, 2024 | lyz.substack.com | Rhaina Cohen |Zachary Smith

    Census data indicates that while divorce rates are not rising, an increasing number of people are choosing not to marry. Some data shows that, in 2021, 52% of women in the United States were unmarried or separated, which is a record high. As more Americans opt out of marriage, what once was the traditional home (one wife, one husband, two kids and a live laugh love sign on the wall of a suburban house) is being recreated to look like communes, co-living, and platonic partnership.

  • Jul 12, 2024 | lithub.com | Rhaina Cohen |Zoe Eisenberg

    Novelist Zoë Eisenberg and journalist-turned-author Rhaina Cohen have something in common: they both published books about extraordinarily intimate friendships. Their debut books published in February of this year with strikingly similar titles—Significant Others (Eisenberg) and The Other Significant Others (Cohen).

  • Apr 22, 2024 | npr.org | Pien Huang |Rhaina Cohen

    Scholars Susan Ashbrook Harvey, left, and Robin Darling Young became "sworn siblings" after an ancient ritual at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Keren Carrion/NPR; Jodi Hilton for NPR hide caption toggle caption Keren Carrion/NPR; Jodi Hilton for NPR Scholars Susan Ashbrook Harvey, left, and Robin Darling Young became "sworn siblings" after an ancient ritual at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

  • Apr 9, 2024 | npr.org | Pien Huang |Rhaina Cohen

    A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: A friend can sometimes feel more like family than an actual sibling. As part of NPR's series on the Science of Siblings, reporters Rhaina Cohen and Pien Huang look at an ancient practice that turned friends into family. PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: It's been decades since Susan Harvey and Robin Darling Young took a trip to Turkey, Syria and Jerusalem, but there are some parts of the journey that they just can't forget.

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13 Nov 24

RT @Cloe_Shasha: Some people have the power to shift a cultural narrative. @rhainacohen is one of those people. It was a very special exper…

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3 Nov 24

RT @SigalSamuel: How can you know if you truly want to have kids? Is it even something *knowable*? I make an unconventional argument in…

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31 Oct 24

This is an extraordinary piece of journalism

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Patience Frazier was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to up to 8 years in prison for trying to end a pregnancy. I investigated her prosecution, brought under a 1911 abortion law — and the intensely personal emotions that fueled it. https://t.co/rjH7Z4hUQG