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Daniel Allan / Getty 'I Told Alan His Pants Don't Fit': This Couple Posts All Their Fights to Twitter
The conventional wisdom of coupledom holds that intimacy equals privacy. Claire and Alan are reversing it.
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NBC The Real Problem With SNL and Casting Black Women
It's not that black women aren't ready for Saturday Night Live. With its limited, stereotype-reinforcing roles, SNL doesn't seem ready for them.
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Reuters ENDA's Tipping Point in the Senate
Testimony by a transgender witness in July 2012 was essential to the non-discrimination bill's passage on Thursday.
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Reuters What If Rand Paul Were a Woman?
Any female politician as sloppy with matters of fact and attribution as the Kentucky senator would be laughed out of Washington.
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Walt Disney Studios The Psychology of Giant Princess Eyes
How Disney's caricature-esque women came to define "the fairest of them all"
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Reuters Meet the Family Behind Malala
How I recruited the young Pakistani activist to become a blogger—and came to know her inspiring parents in the process.
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Katelyn Kenderdine/flickr Germany Has an Official Third Gender
Children born with atypical sexual anatomy will now have their gender left blank instead of being categorized as male or female. To avoid this, parents may hastily opt for "normalizing" surgeries.
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Daquella manera/flickr Study: Black Students With Black Teachers Have Lower Rates of Teen Pregnancy
Minority role models seem to be at the heart of some positive outcomes for students.
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Wikimedia Commons The Rise of the Most Powerful Woman Ever to Rule China
A new book on the Empress Dowager Cixi explores the early life of one of the country's most important historical figures.
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Richie Incognito and the Banality of Supermacho
What does being the "toughest of the tough" really mean?
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Reuters The Workforce Is Even More Divided by Race Than You Think
The labor market is stratified, if not calcified, by race, with whites seeing higher wages and lower unemployment, while blacks and Hispanics cluster in lower-paying jobs.
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Is It Unfair to Expect NFL Players to Behave Like Grown-Ups?
The response to Richie Incognito's alleged harassment of a teammate just shows the futility of trying to hold the NFL to the same standard as any other workplace.
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Penguin Books I Learned Everything I Needed to Know About Marriage From Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen’s classic is 200 years old, but longtime spouses and relationship experts alike stand by the principles it presents.
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Associated Press Biracial Cool: Bill de Blasio's Fresh Electoral Asset
The New York mayor-elect's family—both fascinatingly ordinary and shockingly modern—proved to be one his greatest strengths.
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Walt Stoneburner/flickr A Same-Sex Domestic Violence Epidemic Is Silent
Typical framing of partner abuse as a heterosexual issue—with men abusing women—does a disservice to victims in abusive homosexual relationships.
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Watch Kids React to Gay Marriage
This video of kids watching same-sex marriage proposals has already been viewed 2 million times in the 48 hours since it was posted. What does that say?
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Warner Bros. Elizabeth Taylor's Feisty, Feminist Turn in Giant
Her performance as rancher Leslie Lynnton dismantled stereotypes about women and minorities when it graced screens nearly 60 years ago.
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Alexis Madrigal The Lament of the Working Parent
I won't always be there. But then again, neither will my son.
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Why Shouldn't Gloria Steinem Be a Disney Princess?
Giving history's most influential women the sparkly-gown treatment, as artist David Trumble has, doesn't trivialize them—it celebrates them.
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Reuters Maybe It's a Bad Idea to Resolve Arguments by Texting, Says Science
But sending “I love you” makes you feel good.
