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Is Romney's Outdated View of Family a Threat to Modern Society?

By Nicole Rodgers / Role Reboot

Mitt Romney's attack on unmarried people during this week's debate left me wondering: Are his outdated family values becoming a threat to ours?

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7 Brilliant and Funny Ways Critics Panned Romney's 'Binders Full of Women' Gaffe

By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

How to Talk to Teenagers Who Don't Want to Talk to You

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Confessions of a Kleptomaniac

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Boston Rapper Takes on His Most Violent Enemy Yet: Wall Street

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Can You Date Someone With Different Political Views Than You?

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Is 'Sex Addiction' a Legitimate Excuse for Cheating?

Scott Alexander Hess / The Fix

What I Learned About Romance from Having Casual Sex

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon.com

Right-Wingers Would Be Shocked to Learn That Islam Has Been Part of American History Since Its Founding

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why We Need More People Like Jennifer Livingston to Tell the World There Is More to Life Than Our Weight

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

4 Cynical Ad Campaigns by Corporations Desperate to Persuade Us That They're Not Evil

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Not Just Big Bird: 6 Examples of the Right's War on Beloved Children's Characters

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Puppy Palace for the 1%, for Lapdogs of Luxury

Kim Velsey / New York Observer

Facebook Being Bribed? How Companies Are Paying to Make Their Posts More Visible

Jim Naureckas / FAIR

What's So Terrible About Calling Vaginas "Yonis?"

Janna Zinzi / AlterNet

Why Are These Pampered Wall Street Billionaires So Whiny and Thin-Skinned?

Heather "Digby" Parton / Hullaballoo

After the Debates, Who Will Be Voted Off the Island?

Tom Engelhardt / AlterNet

The 8 Best Time-Travel Flicks

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6 Bad-Ass TV Women

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

"Won't Back Down" Presents a Ruling-Class Wet Dream: Teachers and Parents Working to Destroy Their Own Institutions

Liza Featherstone / Dissent Magazine

Why Sexual Fundamentalists Dominate Politics and How We Can Stop Them

Mandy Van Deven / AlterNet

Finally, Some Cleavage! The Perks of Letting it All Hang Out

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

6 Major Reasons You Should Care About the Labor Battles in Professional Sports

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Why Sex Before Marriage Is the Moral Thing to Do

Jill Filipovic / The Guardian

Movie Theater Solution to Preventing Mass Murder by Guys with More Guns Than Rambo? Search Women's Purses

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Clint Eastwood, After the Chair

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon

Fiona Apple Facing Up to 10 Years in Jail over Texas Marijuana Bust

Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story

The Weird Things Money Does to People

Tom Jacobs / Pacific Standard

2 Fall TV Shows Cashing In on Social and Economic Instability

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Bruce Springsteen and the Politics of Meaning in America

Michael Bader / AlterNet

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