- December 20, 2006 • 12:38 pm PST
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Sex scandals are treated as gossip, not as wake-up calls to fight abuses of power.

I spent my adolescence terrified about sex, all aspects of which seemed to me to be coated with a film of physical and emotional disease.

Whether it was reviled GOP candidates or beloved male porn stars, this year in sex was as varied as sex itself.
Melissa Petro is an elementary school teacher who used to be a sex worker. Her essay for The Rumpus, "Not Safe for Work," examines the stigma...

As a journalist who covers human rights, I spend a lot of time absorbing trauma. This is one thing that helped me deal.
Since, as of yesterday, gay couples can marry in California (or, more exactly,can't not get married in California, which is slightly less...
Today, the state of Iowa joined Massachusetts and Connecticut (and California six months ago) in allowing gay couples to marry. The Iowa State...

Half of young people think matrimony is becoming "obsolete." So why do we still want to do it so badly?
Wonkette reminds us that tomorrow the Supreme Court of the State of New York is set to rule on whether the state can perform gay marriages. We...
Going to the Chapel, Eventually This was a banner year for advocates of same-sex marriage. Although the state supreme court upheld last year's...
The Pew Research Center's report on the state of marriage in states across the country is full of fascinating information-such as the amusingly...
So in Maine yesterday, the voters reversed the state's law allowing gay marriage by a margin of 47-53. This is unfortunate news, especially on the...
In honor of Argentina's decision to start recognizing gay marriage, Nate Silver pulled together this nicely color-coded chart showing the...
The Los Angeles Times has a great interactive graphic that walks you through the last ten years in same-sex marriage legislation, state by state....

Let Kim Kardashian's 10-week romance serve as a reminder that love, not marriage, is what's holy.

We fiercely defend marriage even as we perpetually redefine it. This year was no exception.
Yesterday, the Washington, D.C. Superior Court started issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples, joining Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa,...

A Pew study showing the decline of marriage among lower-income groups, among other findings, is visualized here.

While 57 percent of people under 30 see gay sex as "morally acceptable," only 46 percent of them would say the same about having an abortion.
