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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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When Sarah Palin branded herself as a “mama grizzly,” she was unaware of the supreme irony: grizzly bears are the animals that most embody reproductive freedoms, even reabsorbing their own […]
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A conversation with the sex advice columnist.
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The idea that one instance of infidelity should ruin a relationship is a new—and misguided—notion.
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Despite giving people sex advice for a living, Savage screwed up the “birds and the bees” talk with his own son. Like most adults, he forgot to explain the concept […]
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For the most part, raising a child with two fathers has been totally normal, says the advice columnist. But it has led to some hilarious situations.
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There’s a lot of bad advice that tells teens to come out regardless of their family situation. “Not everyone is in a position where that it wise or safe,” he […]
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The advice columnist, normally quite critical of religion, tells us how a Catholic priest helped his mother come to terms with his homosexuality.
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Religious people have to reconcile themselves to ignore what the Bible says about gay people—the same way they ignore what the Bible says about polyester, lobster, figs, and women.
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The first African-American grandmaster traces his obsession with chess to a high school friend who kept crushing him at the game.
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The game trains you to focus on what your opponent is thinking and planning—a discipline that is useful on the chessboard and in the boardroom.
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“It’s a discipline that you practice,” says the Jamaican-born grandmaster, “and you can’t help but develop your mental powers.”
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The top African-American chess player defied the conventional wisdom that you need to learn the game in preschool to become a grandmaster.
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Players from Brooklyn want “to rip your heart out, cook it, and eat it later.”
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The post-WW2 generation has often been portrayed as narcissistic and self-centered—but that’s a bit of a bum rap.
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Most families today need more than one incomes to be part of the middle class. That is a huge transformation that puts a strain on all kinds of families.
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Most women say they feel misunderstood by marketers, even though they represent 83% of all consumer purchases today—including big-ticket items such as cars and houses.
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Over the past 30 years, inflation-adjusted income levels have remained flat for men. Women, on the other hand, have seen their incomes grow exponentially.
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Everyone has freedom to choose what kind of person he or she wants to be. We can live like cockroaches and feed on rubbish—or like eagles, who fly very high.
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Over 4 million people are displaced in Colombia because of war; both the rightist paramilitary and the leftist guerillas steal land to make themselves richer.