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The boys fall into the gender gap
Reading is not for sissies, as the front page of the newspaper demonstrates every morning in the homestretch of a raucous presidential…
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The presidential candidates we deserve
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are only an accurate reflection of our culture of vulgarity and hypocrisy. Both of them. They'…
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The curse of the college campus
The members of the Class of 2020 know now who they are, or soon will be. They've made the final…
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The sexual politics that hound Hill and Bill
"Sexual politics" once described the power relationship between a man and a woman, but that has changed, like everything else,…
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The antique feminism of Hillary Clinton
The Republicans have sucked all the oxygen out of the room with a race that's finally getting really interesting. Bernie…
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When religious fashion invites suspicion
When I was a girl, graduating from Old Testament and Hebrew language studies at a conservative synagogue, I wore a white robe,…
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The world is at war
Two weeks before the Paris massacre, we took our twin granddaughters, age 11, for their first visit to Paris. They live in…
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There’s more to learning than a job search
In autumn a young man's fancy (and a young woman's, too) turns to thoughts of school. Even the…
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The Hillary and Donald show
The theatrics of politics can work best in summer stock. The candidates know they're not yet playing on Broadway, but…
