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A Mother Asks: What Do Trump’s Remarks About Women Mean for How I Should...
A fair number of denouncements of Donald Trump’s behavior in the recently leaked 2005 video, in which he bragged about forcibly touching a married woman, began with the phrase “As the father of a...
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Janet Jackson’s Pregnancy: Is 50 Too Old To Have a Baby?
People magazine confirmed what once would have been incredible news: a fifty-year-old singer (in this case, Janet Jackson) is pregnant with her first child. Not included in the glowing piece on the new...
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School Kids Don’t Need “Wiggle Chairs.” They Need a Real Recess.
It isn’t easy being a kid these days: the school day has changed a great deal since the current generation of grade school kids’ parents were in school. With a greater emphasis on school work and...
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Young Women Need Less “Body Positivity,” More Modesty
Ariel Winter could not be more dissimilar from her character on Modern Family, Alex Dunphy. On the show, Alex is a mild-mannered bookish nerd whose sole priority is academic success, while in real life...
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What America Forgot About the Suffering of the Forgotten Man
For most political junkies, waking up on Election Day is akin to waking up on Christmas morning. Sitting and watching the returns is downright exhilarating. But for most Americans, this year was very...
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Safety Pin Virtue-Signaling
Imagine the scene: On the subway, a Muslim woman wearing a hijab is sitting, minding her own business. A man approaches, full of hatred in his heart. He wants that seat; she doesn’t deserve to sit. He...
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Kim and Kanye Really Are Together, in Sickness and in Health
When you imagine classic, timeless love stories, the first couple that comes to mind probably isn’t Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Given the number of internet rumors floating around about their...
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Forgive and Forget – But Not with Student Loans
At seventeen years old, while applying to college, I had a fairly one-track mind: I was going to my dream school. I applied to one other school that had a relationship with aforementioned dream school,...
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Want Happy Kids? Let Them Roughhouse with Dad
Whenever our kids climb, jump on, or otherwise maul my husband, I laugh and think, “Better you than me.” When he’s not home, my youngest often tries to roughhouse with me in the same manner, to which I...
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Why You Should Give Gifts to Your Kid’s Pediatrician
Last year around this time was a stressful season in the Mandel house. My almost one-year-old son had been deemed “failure to thrive” and hadn’t gained weight or grown in months. He was vomiting or...
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Why Holidays Offend Feminists
Long before political arguments were the basis for thousands of think pieces and blog guides for how to survive this year’s holiday rituals such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah, my family...
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If Women are Better Doctors, Aren’t Men Better Firefighters?
Men and women are made differently and possess different skills and attributes. This is one of those statements that used to be uncontroversial and incontrovertible, but in the last few years become...
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Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve Meltdown and Our Entitlement Problem
During the Gilmore Girls revival series which aired on Netflix recently, we found one of its stars, the fearless millennial Rory Gilmore, floundering in her career. It’s inexplicable (at least to her)...
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What “Black-ish” Gets Right About Trump Voters
Just a week before the inauguration, the country is still raw with post-election angst. While non-Trump-supporting Republicans have had since the summer to reach a point of acceptance, Hillary voters...
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Why We Don’t Call It Rape When a Woman is the Perpetrator
On the day I wrote this story, the headline of the number one story on the Washington Post website was this: “Texas teacher who had sex almost daily with 13-year-old student gets 10 years in prison.”...
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A Conservative Woman’s Unusual Online Dating Experiment
Despite being married with two children (and another on the way), I’m not the person most friends come to for dating advice. I married the best friend of a guy I met in a bar right out of college and...
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Welcome to the Age of the Coercive Protest
Last spring, while sitting in the parking lot of a Home Depot, I made a calculation that most parents of very small babies make: feed my baby in the parking lot or hurry home and do it there. With an...
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Why the Mainstream Media Can’t Quit Obsessing About the 2016 Election
Earlier this week, CNN aired a debate between far-left Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and conservative Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on the topic of healthcare. During a dead timeslot for the network,...
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‘Teen Vogue’ Writer Fails to Disclose How She Profits from Promoting Abortion...
As the parent of young children, I’m in the habit of looking over everything my kids read or watch. It’s not that hard; I buy every book and they’re really only allowed to watch the PBS show Daniel...
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Stop Ashton Kutcher Before He Testifies Again!
Would you go to a real estate agent for medical advice or to a doctor to sell your home? Why is it, then, that politicians on Capitol Hill continue to turn to Hollywood celebrities to testify about...
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