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"Straight men rarely write about the end of their marriages. Our enduring ideas about gender explain this silence"

"While the 90s and 00s had an abundance of tween-focused pop culture, it seems to be slowly going extinct – so what does that mean for young women today?"

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"A tank destroying Entrance Gate 3 of San Marcos University (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) on January 21 has become a powerful image of the recent outbreak of violence in Peru. A contingent of police officers entered the _...Read More_

"This is partly due to factors that are affecting all US workers, like out-of-control housing markets and lack of paid family leave or universal health care. But it is also the result of the growing corporatization of the university."

"Is TikTok’s new ‘deinfluencing’ trend genuinely an antidote to our culture of overconsumption, or is it just a symptom of our economically turbulent times?"

"Stripper Web trained new girls like me to harness the power of money against the men who wielded it. Any dancer could read hundreds of posts about which clubs were rife with managers extorting dancers for money and sex. Nowhere else could _...Read More_

"Architect and poet Paolo Belardi traces the many conditions and situations that have inspired extraordinary ideas across the arts and sciences."

"The Czech writer’s darkly humorous novel, published in 1936, anticipated our current reality with eerie accuracy."