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I've seen my friends harass women on the street. I can't be silent any moreDudes have been hollering, cat calling or cracking on women years before I was even born. But if men are the problem, we can also be part of the solution
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The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empireThe problem isn’t China’s rise, but rather America’s insistence on maintaining military and economic dominance right in China’s backyard -
All my exes are married off. I know how I'm supposed to feel about thatThere’s all kinds of stereotypes you can live out as the jilted ex of a man now at the altar with someone else. Or you could just laugh at it all
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I have become Boring. And happyModern life can be bleak if you are under 30, and so, like many of my peers, I am opting for quiet rambles in the Peak District over wild nights in Ibiza
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Summertime and the livin' is easy (for the rich)When the sun comes out, we can see that the wealthy have the right to leisure and relaxation, unlike the rest of us
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Gay conversion therapy ruins lives. We cannot afford to keep it legalLGBT people often hate themselves after the torture of conversion therapy. That hate doesn’t just hurt them, it affects all of us
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Don't be intimidated by museums. They belong to everyoneMany art museums are the predominantly “white spaces” that critics have long said they are. But we can change that
#FergusonNext
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Can black police be pro-black and pro-blue at the same time?Law enforcement representatives have ratcheted up the ‘us versus them’ rhetoric. This can leave black officers stuck in the middle
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America cannot lock its poor in debtor's prisons to fund its police departmentsLocal courts and municipalities – reliant on fines and fees as a source of revenue – are adopting aggressive collection practices that prey on the poor
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David Simon’s judgmental post about the Freddie Gray protests were the wrong message, at the wrong time, coming from the wrong personGo home, David Simon. Without justice in Baltimore, there can be no peace
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It’s dismally apparent that some black lives matter more than othersPolice shootings in the US rightly provoke enormous outrage. So where’s the outcry over the drowning of hundreds of Africans in the Mediterranean?
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Police officers looked at me in the same lascivious way as they did other women. I learned they weren’t there to protect me as much as watch me.The police hit black women with both racism and sexism at once
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Why Baltimore and Ferguson might embrace gardening and find healingThere are countless stories of people caring for nature in dozens of “broken” places – from post-Soviet Russia to urban parks in earthquake-stricken Haiti
Columnists and contributors
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Oliver BurkemanOliver BurkemanWe’ve created a world in which growing up – let alone growing elderly – is something nobody would reasonably chooseThe cult of youth cheats young and old alike. Let's reclaim adulthood
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Jess ZimmermanJess ZimmermanSocial media gives people a megaphone. But if companies keep giving that megaphone to trolls intending to hurt people, they start to look complicitTwitter need not police hate speech. But it doesn't have to enable it, either
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Steven W ThrasherSteven W ThrasherWhen the sun comes out, we can see that the wealthy have the right to leisure and relaxation, unlike the rest of usSummertime and the livin' is easy (for the rich)
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Jeb LundJeb LundWhen the atypical politician loses, he’ll have pushed the party’s presidential nominee left and started a movement for campaign finance reformBernie Sanders doesn't have to win the Democratic primary to do a lot of good
My childhood in a cult is hard to imagine - but my survival is truly unbelievable