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How people reacted to my rape

Laura Marshall
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-830908p1.html'>Oksana Kuzmina</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

At-home dads vs. at-home moms

Brian Gresko, Stephanie Feldman
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How to catfish ethically

Ayako Black - The Kernel
Kate Moss (AP)

The unattainable thin ideal

Harriet Brown
(Shutterstock)

Jason Mark - Earth Island Journal
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America is just gross

Robert Paarlberg
Brad Pitt in "Fight Club" (Twentieth Century Fox)

My own personal Fight Club

Jonathan Gottschall
Tom Cruise, in a still from "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" (HBO)

Secrets of the Scientologists

Darragh McNicholas
(ABC)

The week in weird news

Colin Gorenstein
Gwyneth Paltrow (AP/Dan Steinberg)

A four-day failure

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Britt McHenry (CNN/LiveLeak)

"Lose some weight, baby girl"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Michael Bublé's bodyshaming

Colin Gorenstein
Natalie Portman (Associated Press/Hermann J. Knippertz)

Jenny Kutner
(Ben & Jerry's)

The Brrr-ito is here

Joanna Rothkopf
(Shutterstock: Monkey Business Images)

"I wish my teacher knew"

Colin Gorenstein
FILE - This is a Feb. 21, 2015, file photo showing Jameis Winston at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis. Winston has spent much of the past two months crisscrossing the nation, sharpening his quarterback skills and trying to convince NFL teams he's learned from mistakes made off the field and ready to become the face of a franchise. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) (AP)

Jenny Kutner
(Comedy Central)

The most American news stories

Colin Gorenstein
Jenny McCarthy (AP/Richard Shotwell)

How we beat the anti-vaxxers

Nicholas J. Diamond
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Carrie Weisman - Alternet

"Die a painful death"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Adrian Peterson (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Jenny Kutner
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The dog-human bond explained

Joanna Rothkopf
(Shutterstock)

E-cigarette boom among youth

Joanna Rothkopf
(Comedy Central)

Stewart mocks megachurches

Colin Gorenstein
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