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The History of the Term ‘Toxic Masculinity’
In his book Of Boys and Men, researcher Richard Reeves notes that until around 2015, the phrase “toxic masculinity” was just mentioned a few ...
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Hungry Six-Year-Old Phones in Exorbitant Takeout Order
When Keith Stonehouse started receiving a flurry of orders from the takeout service GrubHub, it didn’t take him long to realize what had happened. ...
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Man Kills Woman Over Basketball Game
A playground scene turned tragic after a woman was shot and killed after a basketball game. Cameron Hogg, 31, is facing murder charges in connection to ...
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Humble Man Tuned Pianos for the Stars
The largely unknown Franz Mohr once claimed, “I play [the piano] more in Carnegie Hall than anybody else, but I have no audience.” Mohr, was ...
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Can You Control Yourself?
One key discovery is that self-control is an exhaustible but buildable resource. A psychologist demonstrated this with a clever experiment. He had college ...
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Americans Have More Possessions than Any Society in History
Many Americans struggle with clutter. This is one reason for the popularity of the simplicity movement. And it’s why books like Marie Kondo’s, ...
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America’s Unhappy Sex Recession
The Atlantic observed, “The United States is in the middle of a ‘sex recession.’ Nowhere has this sex recession proved more consequential ...
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Man Convicted of Assault Over Card Game
Taylor Grant was convicted in May 2022 of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm in connection with a shooting. According to authorities, Grant ...
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True Love Places Limits on Our Freedom
In his book Making Sense of God, Tim Keller notes that when the national anthem is sung at sporting events, the cheering begins on the line “o’er ...
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God Called a Hip-Hop Lesbian to Faith
Writer, poet, and hip-hop artist Jackie Hill Perry was a lesbian in a loving relationship when she felt God calling her to a different life:
God knew he ...
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