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Opinion: Planned Parenthood and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Mar 8, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

The first time I visited New York City as a high-schooler, I saw a teenage boy carrying a rusty machete and chasing another through the street in a rough-looking part of the Bronx. A version of the...

Opinion: Colleges Flunk the Civic Engagement Test

Mar 7, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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We live in consequential times. And in the past few weeks, we have been reminded of the precious gift of political dissent. Here at home, we see it in Madison, Wis., where a budget crisis has forced...

Opinion: Labor's Last Stand

Mar 7, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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Protests continue in Wisconsin, and around the country, over the threats to curtail bargaining rights and cut benefits of public-sector unions. But the wake-up call to labor has come late, and the...

Women's History Month Hero -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Mar 6, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

Courtesy of Meg Waite Clayton Meg Waite Clayton wrote "The Wednesday Sisters" and "The Language of Light." The fight for women's suffrage started, as so many things do, with women talking...

Public Support for Gay Marriage on Verge of Surpassing Opposition

Mar 5, 2011 - 11:00 PM |Politics Daily

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Gay marriage is continuing to gain acceptance among the public -- the latest survey from the Pew Research Center shows Americans almost evenly split between those who oppose and those who support...

Opinion: Democracy Is the New Black

Mar 5, 2011 - 7:20 AM |AOL News

Congratulations from the United States of America to all our freedom loving brothers and sisters in Egypt and Yemen and Jordan and Oman and Tunisia and Libya and Iran and Bahrain and Morocco and...

Opinion: Obama's Weakness -- He's Typical, Not Radical

Mar 5, 2011 - 5:00 AM |AOL News

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The best way for conservatives to defeat Barack Obama in 2012 is to tag him as typical, not radical. The GOP only hurts its own cause by slamming Obama as an extremist ideologue with an alien agenda,...

Opinion: Anybody Know What the Obama Doctrine Is?

Mar 4, 2011 - 5:00 AM |AOL News

OK, it's now one week later. President Barack Obama dithers over Libya with the predictable result that things have become even worse. Earlier administrations might have sent cruisers, but we...

Opinion: Consumer Lending at Risk

Mar 4, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

Anyone with an interest in maintaining the positive economic momentum we've recently seen should pay close attention to the startup of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB was created...

Opinion: Why Decriminalize Child Prostitution?

Mar 4, 2011 - 5:00 AM |Special to AOL News

Believe it or not, the average age for a girl entering prostitution is 13 years old, and the average age is declining as buyers want younger and younger children. Nobody knows exactly how many kids...

Opinion: Why Libya Matters to the US

Mar 3, 2011 - 7:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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The political crisis in the Middle East and North Africa is widening and deepening. The overthrow of dictators in Tunisia and Egypt has changed future political possibilities in that region. Now all...

Opinion: The Rush to Diagnose Charlie Sheen

Mar 3, 2011 - 7:00 AM |Special to AOL News

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Many articles and blog posts have speculated about Charlie Sheen's recent bizarre behavior, and various possible diagnoses have been mentioned. People want to understand him -- what's wrong with him,...