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Who Creates Jobs (and Other Critical Questions)

The most important thing we can do is treat our human capital in this country as our most precious national resource.

Tom Matlack's Weekly Column

Sex & Relationships

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6 Reasons ‘Why Women Aren’t Crazy’ is Only Part of the Story

How listening changes everything: Mark Greene seeks a non-gender binary discussion of gas lighting.

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My Future Father-in-Law Thinks I Should Be a ‘Girly Man’

A man wonders why his fiancé’s father assumes that he should be girly, simply because he’s the shorter one in the relationship.

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Education and Boys

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Make Good Art

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012: “If you don’t know it’s impossible, it’s easier to do.”

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Business Ethics

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Grow Fangs

“Never allow limited resources to limit your imagination. Bite off more than you can chew. Then grow fangs.”

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Manners Made To Order

When did manners in the business place become a rarity? Ken Goldstein reflects on the ever-changing environment of the workplace.

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Men Are Funny

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Waxing Whiskers

Andrew Amundson is a man who dares to celebrate his follicular independence.

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F*ck You “Mr. Mom”

Don’t call him Mr. Mom… Al Watts is an At-Home Dad. And don’t you forget it.

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10 from the Archives

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The Happy Hour Miscarriage in Paradise

How many times can you lose a child without even having one before things change?

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My Ex-Wife’s Wedding: Best. Wedding. Ever.

After a marriage fraught with difficulties, Steve Jaeger finds the wedding of his ex-wife to be a day of joy.

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Invisible Father

Robert Peake believes that for fathers and non-fathers alike, “the best in us involves us giving back in ways that are uniquely male.”

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My Life as a Hermit Crab

After a tragic childhood, P.M. Leonard built up a shell, but he’s finding a way to see the light again.

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Awaiting Vesuvius

When a romance is over, it’s over. The problem according to Jackie Summers, is that no one ever evacuates Pompeii until the volcano erupts.

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When Playboy Bunnies Ruled

At 17, most girls are filling out college applications. I was nervously auditioning to become a Bunny at the New York Playboy Club.

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Living Father, Zombie Husband

Every summer, Robert Barsanti returns to Nantucket, where his marriage died—and where his two boys still need him.

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Mission Soccer

For the varsity soccer players at one San Francisco school, their team is their family, and futbol might be their only ticket to college. Jordan Conn shadowed the team last fall, as they defended their title against a neighborhood rival.

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Finding Julian

Andrew Cotto loses his son in a museum—and finds a new approach to being a good dad.

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When Skinny Men Go to the Gym

For the sake of his children, our pasty British friend Ben Wakeling hits the gym. Then he hits the wall. Then the floor.

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Men Over 50

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Getting Old? Absolutely Not!

Graham Phoenix refuses to get old and expects to become a cantankerous old man.

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Weekend Fiction

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The Heart of My House

The home has long been a powerful metaphor, and for good reason. The place where we live comes to represent us. But here is a story I haven’t seen before, where the homeowner cannot seem to see his house as it is. Where he can’t stop seeing it as a metaphor. —Matt Salesses, Good Men Project [...]

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Sports

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The Errant Heel: Episode 6

In Episode Six, Brian and Tom discuss misogynist high school baseball teams and the sleepy heroes of the Clemens trial jury, all while exploring a new studio space.

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The Issues of Men’s Rights

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Regarding the Suppression of Men’s Issues

Mark Greene believes our male cultural history, the steps we took to get here, make ignoring boys and men as victims a likely outcome.

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Mentoring and Volunteering

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All Children Are Born With Potential: A Talk with Wendy Foster of Big Brothers, Big Sisters

Wendy Foster talks about the ways a friendship-based model of mentoring our youth can create positive change.

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Male Heartbreak

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Love Conquers All—Except, Maybe, the Bottle

Mika Doyle’s first love taught her that love is not enough to sustain a relationship.

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Conflict

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The Flight 93 Memorial: A Travesty on a Tragedy

Cameron Conaway’s recent trip to the Flight 93 Memorial left him heartbroken, but not in the way he expected.

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Learning

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Please Sir, Can I Read Some More

When Kalimah Priforce was eight years old and in foster care, he got more books the only way he could. He went on a hunger strike.

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Adventures in Polyamory

A champion of sexual freedom, Henry Vandenburgh navigates an open marriage and doesn’t miss a beat.

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The Presumption of Male Guilt

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When Women Fear Men

Statistics don’t make us safe, Lisa Hickey says. Self-empowerment and facing our fears do.

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The Prison-Industrial Complex is Anti-Man

Ozy Frantz takes on the prison-industrial complex and how it affects the lives of American men.

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Health, Psychology & Addiction

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Lost Boy

Sneaking out, smoking pot, stealing from step-dad’s wallet—Gabi Coatsworth wonders if she should have seen her son’s bipolar diagnosis coming.

Act Like a Man

Struggling to be the best man you can be? Sounds like you need group therapy, man style.

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Marriage and Divorce

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Scenes From a Divorce: The First Epiphany

Although his marriage didn’t work out, Steven Axelrod’s children washed away any lingering regret.

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The End of Gender

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The Last Great Surprise

Boy babies and girl babies, CJ Kaplan writes, are both worth the wait.

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Gender Politics

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Undercover at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp

Ted Cox took on the identity of a closeted Mormon for a weekend of crying, singing, and wrestling. It was the first time he felt another man’s erection.

Advice & Confessions

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Nine Days with Cancer

Jim Mitchem learned a lot in nine days.

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Gender and Sexuality

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Marriage Equality: Making it Their Special Day

“Today, I think most marriages aim for equality. Let’s move away from making it her special day and start making it their special day.”

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Give and Receive With Two Hands

“Hold a true friend with both hands.” ~ Kanuri proverb

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Ethics & Values

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Invisible Men

Like all human beings, men need connections in their lives; we need to be able to share our experiences and seek support.

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Men and Dating

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F*ck Club

“The first rule about F*ck Club is: you don’t blog about F*ck Club.”

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Mental Illness, Mental Health

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying …. And Love the Bipolar Disorder

Shawn Maxam discusses the importance of accepting his mental illness.

Man to Man

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Man-to-Man with Animated American Producer Bill Schultz

Savas Abadsidis sits down with animation producer Bill Schultz to discuss baseball, entertainment, and the value of a good father.

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Families

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About Ducks

This is not about ducks.

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How to Talk to Your Children About Gay Parents, By a Gay Parent

Jerry Mahoney offers a list of techniques to teach children about accepting different types of families.

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Arts & Entertainment

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Class Acts: Hollywood’s Actors Who Went to College

Find out where your favorite A-lister went to get their smarts

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Gay & Bisexual Men

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It Gets Better… With Fists

Jeremy Feist isn’t proud of himself for having beat someone up, but he is proud of refusing to the the victim of a bully.

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Two Fathers, No Mother: Crossing the Big Black Line

William Lucas Walker’s journey from “gay cliché” boyhood to married fatherhood, via love and loss.

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Signs of Our Times

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Good Jew

Writer Jonathan Papernick embarks on a quest to become a better Jew—and a better man.

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Work / Life Balance

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George Lucas And The Thing a Man Needs Most

Mark Radcliffe learned that the Star Wars movies reflect the life of the man behind them, and when he lost something important, so did they.

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Men and Feminism

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The First Myth of Patriarchy: The Acorn on the Pillow

Tad Hargrave explains how patriarchy and masculinity are not the same thing, and privilege is not good for anyone.

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Platonic Relationships

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She’s Only Just a Friend

Shawn Maxam consults his phone to count all his female friends.

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Photoessay

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A Conversation With Tim Hetherington

“He was like Hercules. I’m surprised the shell that killed him didn’t just bounce off.”

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Project Unbreakable

Grace Brown photographs survivors of sexual abuse with posters that hold quotes from their attackers. TRIGGER WARNING.

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On Rape and Sexual Violence

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A woman finds herself unable to shake a single incident from her past.

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Victims of the Crime

When Paul Kidwell’s girlfriend was raped years ago, the devastation of her trauma extended to their relationship, and though they have both moved on, that memory remains part of their lives.

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On Race

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On Race

Why is race so difficult to talk about?

Fear & Courage

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Love in the Time of Lymphoma

When Daniel Haack was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 22, he started using a different line at bars: “Hey, my name’s Daniel, and I have cancer.”

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Women’s Obsession with Beauty

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The Ugly Duckling as Gender-Neutral Beauty Ideal

‘The Ugly Duckling’ provides a lesson in beauty and acceptance for everyone, regardless of gender.

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Technology

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You Need Rights Like the Internet Needs Pants

Technology author and system administrator Tom Limoncelli says it’s time to create an internet user bill of rights.

Editors’ Picks

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Ouch

How do you make up for accidentally setting your fiancée’s hair on fire? Write an essay about it, of course.

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Out of Sync

Puberty is difficult enough. Imagine going through it when you’re nine

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Think Like a Mountain

A Wisconsin teacher uses an essay about wolves to teach her students about empathy, environmentalism, and looking at all sides of a complex issue.

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Men and Social Media

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Why I’m Social-Media Promiscuous

Good Men Media CEO Lisa Hickey wants you—and Malcom Gladwell—to know: the revolution can be tweeted.

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