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A Woman’s (Only) Nation: What’s Missing from the Shriver Report
You have to hand it to Maria Shriver. With her newly released report “A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From the Brink” the Kennedy scion and gender impresario has managed to wrench the spotlight away from...
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Smoking Guns: The Deafening Silence of the Assault Weapons Makers
When I hear about another military-style assault-weapon tragedy, I can’t help thinking about cigarettes. It’s faded a bit into history now, but it was roughly 20 years ago that the heads of seven major...
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Dear How I Met Your Mother: ‘Asian’ Is Not a Costume
CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother got a beating this week for a tasteless yellowface kung fu tribute that aired on Monday. The episode, titled “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra,” featured Jason...
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The Impossibility of The Good Black Mother
I could tell you that I don’t want to be burdened by the expectation that I should be a (never quite) Good (enough) Mother. That I don’t want to be defined by my relationship to my child, perpetually...
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School Volunteering and Parental Pressure: One Mom’s Unapologetic No
For me, having children was like being run over by a small, fast locomotive. I had, to my enduring surprise, three babies under the age of three. From the moment I woke up to the moment I fell asleep...
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A Resolution for Moms: No More Fakebook
According to Facebook, this is how I spent my Saturday with the kids: My children and I woke up with the sun, smiling and ready to kick ass and “make it a great day.” My hair was shiny. My smile, too....
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Premature Perfection: Why an Early Delivery Is Just as Good As Any
Two months before my son was due, I woke in the middle of the night with pangs in my stomach. Despite my overwhelming craving for carrots, these weren’t hunger pains. I figured they were simply the...
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In Defense of Having an Only Child: Yes, I Am That Selfish
I was never one of those women who dreamed of a house full of children running around while I coddled and cooed over them. In fact, I was never really one for young children at all. Despite all that, I...
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Obama’s Unfathomable, Bottomless, Contemptible Cowardice on Pot
Barack Obama’s recent comments about marijuana haven’t just caused a major controversy about federal drug policy. They illustrate how absolutely terrified politicians are to do the right thing — even...
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American Eagle’s Anti-Photoshopping Campaign Is Insidious Stuff, Too
American Eagle has announced that, in an effort to present more realistic role models for teens, it will not be using Photoshop in its new lingerie campaign. Images will appear unretouched, with such...
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Despite Philip Seymour Hoffman, There Is No Heroin Crisis
The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has given rise to a massive outpouring of grief and sadness from his fans and admirers. It has also given rise to an equally massive outpouring of patently...
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Millennials: Trust No One But Twitter
Millennials — today’s 80 million-strong generation of 18 to 34 year olds — have been raised to be wary of, at the risk of sounding like a Boomer, The Man. They’ve graduated college with tens of...
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What You Should Know About Ukraine
Ukraine is a divided country caught in an increasingly violent tug of war between its past and future. Begin inside the country. About two thirds of Ukraine’s citizens are ethnic Ukrainians whose first...
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How Facebook Gender Identity Is Like Pop-Tart Sushi
As any consumer of Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts could have told you, Facebook’s new and expansive gender-identification options are a woefully lagging indicator of the wide-ranging and decades-long trend toward...
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Small Science, Big Diseases
There is grandeur in the small science emerging from a select group of the world’s laboratories. This small science is about to change how we tackle our most troublesome diseases. Gene therapy....
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How an Insensitive Jerk Saved My Marriage
“Oh, you’re pregnant again!?” one of my wife’s colleagues (who does not work with her on a daily basis) asked. Upon seeing her reaction, he tried to backtrack. But the damage was done. Allie hid in her...
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Why El Chapo’s Capture Is a Beginning, Not an End
It wasn’t just that they got him; it’s also how they got him. Mexican navy commandos, working in tandem with U.S. law enforcement officials, arrested the world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquín “El...
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Don’t Applaud Jared Leto’s Transgender ‘Mammy’
Back in 1940, when Hattie McDaniel took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Mammy in “Gone With The Wind,” Hollywood was incessantly proud of itself. The Academy indulged in...
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Spike Lee’s Racism Isn’t Cute: ‘Motherf-cking Hipster’ Is the New ‘Honkey’
It’s interesting that the director of the richest oeuvre of black films in the history of the medium doesn’t understand what the Civil Rights revolution was for. In his expletive-laced comments about...
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A Jewish Girl’s Love Letter to Loehmann’s
Loehmann’s is closed. Last week, the famous discount designer clothing store, shuttered the last of its remaining 39 shops, including one in Los Angeles where I live and four in New York City, where it...
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