Remembering Roger Ebert

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What made him the one movie critic people really listened to?

Dear John: Haunted By Hook-Up At His Kid’s School’s Drop-Off

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Someone bound to remember a regrettable hook-up, a friend who can’t take criticism, and an ill friend who guilts people into getting what she wants.

How One Person Can Improve a Relationship

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Communication skills anyone can learn to put the love back into their relationship.

Yoga Pants and Unexamined Assumptions

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Noah Brand responds to The Frisky’s criticism of a Good Men Project article.

What Is Good Journalism?

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Using the U.S. Benghazi embassy attack as an example, Eric Sentell reveals the “echo chamber” effect in partisan journalism.

Intelligent Conflict

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Eric Sentell provides strategies for managing conflict and disagreement.

How to Talk to Women Without Pissing Them Off

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Express your opinions and give advice, but do it respectfully, says Dr. Christie Hartman.

Trust Me, I’m Lying: Interview With Ryan Holiday

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Media guru Ryan Holiday exploits the chinks inherent in the armor of the news-gathering process, and the fourth estate fights back. Chuck Ross interviews a self-admitted media manipulator.

Your Humble Editors are Reading Fifty Shades of Grey.

Because of course we are. Did you think we’d let you down? Never, baby. We’re gonna stick with you through the end. And we’re gonna protect you, and give you expensive gifts and get all up in your business and maybe cross a few lines but only because we’ve never wanted someone as much as [...]

P!nk: Lady Warrior, Femmephobe

Femmephobia is a trouble that I look on with no small amount of sympathy. In this lovely article from No Seriously, What AboutTeh Menz? Ozy Frantz discusses how, when zie was in high school, zie was a “Cool Chick.” Zie mocked other girls for their stereotypically feminine presentation and behavior and “adopt[ed] male gender norms [...]

7 Ways to Work Out Negative Emotions with Your Mate

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How to transform conflict with your mate into compassion.

Being in Control vs. Keeping it Together

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Why Rudd’s five types of men are damaging to the understanding of both men and women.

Shut Mouth: Please, Stop Giving Me Your Parenting Advice

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Loved-ones and strangers wanting to pet your baby comes with the territory, but please curb the undesired parenting advice, Charlie Capen writes.

Ms. Magazine Talks Shop With Lisa Hickey

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When GMPM launched, Ms. magazine took us under their generous wing, calling the mag “what enlightened masculinity might look like in the 21st century.” Now that we’ve been given some time to grow up, they’ve come back to check in.

Somewhere Between Winning and Losing

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Bethlehem Shoals wants to rid our sports vocabulary of the “lovable loser” label.

Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘a Lot in Common’ With George W. Bush

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The two yukked it up for an hour on a streamed Facebook interview. Topics included education, “difficult decisions,” and their shared weathering of widespread disapproval.