Given the anxieties that powerful women provoke, it’s not surprising that both men and women judge them more harshly than they judge powerful men.
Peter Beinart writes in Fear of a Female President
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Vann Newkirk writes in his review of the critically-acclaimed FX series starring Donald Glover in Atlanta’s Magic Is in the Details
For most Americans, “until marriage” proves too long to wait—at most, only about 5 percent are virgins on their wedding night. Even many Christians now question the idea that premarital sex necessarily taints people.
Olga Khazan writes in Sex Ed Without the Sex
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Most [Americans] can’t remember their partner’s cell phone number, but they know every digit required to reachEmpire carpet. Or every word of “I’m a Toys ‘R Us Kid.” Or that the best part of waking up is Folgers in their cup.
Tiffany Stanley writes in
Jonathan Timm in The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee
James Hamblin writes in “The Health Benefits of Decoupling Money and Masculinity”
While cheating has been around longer than the Olympics, humans have found new and more creative ways to do it.
Read J. Weston Phippen’s story
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Even if the courts had handled the case differently—placing less emphasis on what the woman was wearing, for instance, or that she was intoxicated, or acknowledging that even though she’d had consensual sex with Parker previously, rape was possible—victim advocates think the school also could and should have done more to address the situation.
Emily DeRuy writes in
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“Rather than sticking with turgid socialist clichés, in 1958 East German...
Listen to MIke D yell at an ill-informed radio producer because sometimes it’s really fun to be wrong: http://bit.ly/UralXA
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From Cats Dressed as People, 100 Years Ago, one of 15 photos. The Aviator. (Harry Whittier Frees/Library of Congress)
Memento Mori by Henrik Hondius (1626)
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Part 1
Some claim that evolution is just a theory, as if it were merely an opinion.
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