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Embracing Teenage Sexuality: Let's Rethink the Age of Consent
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 01.02.2010 | Politics
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Our draconian consent laws are largely the product of a conservative political culture that has transformed the fight against child molestation into a full-blown war on teenage sexuality.
Amid Gloom: 8 Fun Media Highlights for 2009
Greg Mitchell | Posted 01.01.2010 | Media
As I get ready to exit my office at Editor & Publisher, I find myself trying to ignore this sad end to the decade by focusing on some wild and crazy stories that I've covered here this past year.
Sarah Palin: America's Trojan Horse
Virginia Bell | Posted 12.30.2009 | Living
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Sarah Palin has the ability to evoke many goddesses simultaneously which may account for her appeal. Yet there is something false about how she conjures up each feminine archetype as if playing dress up.
The Designated Driver Campaign: Why It Worked
Jay Winsten | Posted 12.28.2009 | Media
Despite the Designated Driver campaign's success in making the term a household phrase, some 13,000 people will still lose their lives this year to alcohol-related incidents. Help this NYE to make sure everyone has a DD.
2009's Headline Dads: A Year in the Garden of Good and Evil
Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.28.2009 | Media
Not to desert the holiday spirit, but here's to a more nuanced, realistic 2010, full of robust skepticism and humanity without the edges sanded off and tucked neatly into a one-minute elevator pitch.
Al Hurra, Still "A Bad Idea"
James Zogby | Posted 12.28.2009 | World
Al Hurra, the US government-funded television network, was a bad idea when it was launched in 2004. It has failed, and yet it won't die any time soon.
The Best And Worst Architecture Of The '00s
The Washington Post | Posted 12.27.2009 | Home
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Architecture is symbiotically linked to the flow of money, and so it was a topsy-turvy decade, beginning in exuberance, and ending with talk that perh...
David Brooks Picks The Best Long-Form Magazine Journalism Of 2009
New York Times | Posted 12.25.2009 | Media
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Every year, I give out Sidney Awards to the best magazine essays of the year. In an age of zipless, electronic media, the idea is to celebrate (and pr...
'Tis the Season to be Green
Charlotte Safavi | Posted 12.24.2009 | World
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Whether or not the green aspirations of regular Iranian citizens will be met, to me they have helped resurrect the identity of a nation, or at the very least, repaint it in a different hue.
Media Freedom Prerequists For Jordan
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 12.28.2009 | Media
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Reforming and regulating Jordan's media appears to be one of the priorities of the administration of Samir Rifai.
What I Want For Christmas: Mass Clemency
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics
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A mass, collective pardon of nonviolent offenders would reunite hundreds of thousands of families, save billions of dollars in incarceration costs, and might foster a national spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation.
The World's Gender Declaration?
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 12.23.2009 | World
A major summit meeting In Istanbul among representatives from 65 countries culminated in the adoption of a declaration that calls for "worldwide efforts to achieve gender equality and empower women.
Laboring Under An Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing
Amie Newman | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living
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Elson has been working with pregnant women for many years; her answers to my questions and her perspective seem wonderfully balanced, rooted in a concern for what is best for women.
President to Speak at Human Trafficking Conference
Michelle Bart | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics
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Portland, OR - Soroptimist International Northwestern Region along with many other agencies will come together to host the annual Northwest Conferen...
Sir Harold (or, I'm Just Wild About Harry)
Paula Gordon | Posted 12.23.2009 | Media
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It's going to take us all to demand that the mass media fulfill its role in a democracy. If we are going to govern ourselves and not be overwhelmed by the rabid wrong wing, we have to know what's really going on.
Demi Moore's Hip, and Handling the Truth
Anthony Citrano | Posted 12.28.2009 | Entertainment
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On Tuesday night, I received a threatening letter from Demi Moore's attorney regarding the controversy caused by a photo of her that was over-retouched. I have decided to publish it.
A Fox News Christmas
David Kronke | Posted 12.21.2009 | Comedy
(Cue song) Violent night, protest night.. Liberals flee at our sight.. They are socialist, fascist and cruel.. We will stomp them, show them to be fools.. We must wipe them all ow-out.. We must wipe them all out.
Ignorant and Misleading Global Warming Headlines
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 12.21.2009 | Media
Ed Henry and CNN were obviously trying to be cute, but the implication of the piece, as with the misleading Bloomberg piece, is that such supposedly freakish weather indicates that global warming isn't real. Which, of course, is nonsense.
Happy News Year
Rory O'Connor | Posted 12.18.2009 | Media
Join me in bidding farewell to the Aughts. It was a decade of disruption and decay, of death (newspapers) and birth (new forms of journalism).
Stevenson High School Students Raise Censorship Concerns With Administrators
Freedom Project | December 17, 2009 10:59 PM | Posted 12.18.2009 | Chicago
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Evan Ribot said student leaders at the Statesman have given this speech too many times to deaf ears. The Stevenson High School student newspaper sta...
Iranian Protesters Win the Vote, But Time Picks Bernanke
Sam Sedaei | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
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Looking beyond Ben Bernanke's merits as an effective chairman, there are three reasons why this was a poor selection on Time's part.
How Will Tiger Do? A Statistical Look at Returns From Scandals Past
David Roher | Posted 12.17.2009 | Sports
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What can we learn about how Tiger will do upon his return from other athletes who have also returned from scandal-fueled absences?
Where Have All The Philosophers Gone?
Tom Morris | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living
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Science pays off in technology and medicine. Where does contemporary philosophy pay off?
"Our Bodies, Ourselves": 40 Years on, Still Circling the Globe
Bella DePaulo | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact
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There are some truths about women's health that may now seem self-evident, but perhaps would not be so obvious if it were not for the ideas espoused, starting so long ago, by "Our Bodies, Ourselves."
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