Drink Like a Union Man

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Jesse Kornbluth learns to suck it up like the big boys.

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Coup d’État

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A missionary growing his first chin hairs comes face to face with revolutionary soldiers in the Dominican Republic.

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Sean Hannity, Take Note: Physical Courage is Easier Than Moral Courage

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It’s easy to blindside someone and lay them out; it’s a lot harder to stand up in a locker room of 52 teammates and say it’s wrong to try and intentionally hurt an opponent.

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I Was Depressed Until I Played Basketball

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Volunteering to coach your son’s first grade basketball team is one kind of pain, being forced to play for the first time in 20 years led Andrew Cotto to a much different feeling

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My Wobbly Bicycle, 17: A Tribute to My Husband

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Poet Fleda Brown’s moving tribute to the man who sees her as beautiful, chemo hat or not.

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Just Because I Look Like My Father Doesn’t Mean I Act Like Him

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One mother sees the influences of her abusive father in her face, and the love of her husband in her daughter

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“I Don’t See Race”: Racial Color Blindness and Eradicating Racism

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So-called “color blindness” actually perpetuates racist attitudes, says Bill Johnson II. What will work to eradicate racism?

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I’m a Short Guy

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It sucks to be a short man, and no one wants to hear Allan Mott complain about it.

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The Healthy Sex Talk: Teaching Kids Consent, Ages 1-21

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A list of parenting action items, created in the hope that we can raise a generation of children who have less rape and sexual assault in their lives…from toddlers to teens.

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Forgiving Those Who Take Forever To Come Out

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Orlando Soria tells his own story of coming out and how he learned to understand why others find it so difficult.

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The Monster Inside Me

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Depression has a bottomless appetite for destruction, and it almost destroyed David Perez.

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I Won’t Teach My Daughter It’s Wrong to Flash Her Boobs

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Shannon Fisher wants her daughter to know that no one ever has a right to shame her over what she chooses to do with her body.

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She’s the One

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Tom Matlack talks to married men to find out when they knew their wife was “the one.”

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Confessions From a Former Psycho Bitch From Hell

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A quest for perfection turned Vironika Tugaleva into an urban legend.

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Why Do We Demonize Men Who Are Honest About Their Sexual Needs?

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Society pressures men to initiate sexual relationships, yet punishes them when they’re candid about their desires. So how can a man express his sexual needs without being tarred as a creep?

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The Measure of a Man in the Digital Age

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I contemplate the tracks of my peers as technology and personhood become more intertwined.

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