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Sympathy for the Devil
Published February 5, 2010
Martha Coakley is a leading light among sex-crimes witch-hunters. Why do her liberal supporters keep this record under wraps?
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Levine wins two Sexies!
Published January 20, 2010
Two of my Seven Days “Poli Psy” columns have won 2009 Sex-Positive Journalism Awards, tying for first and second places in the Opinion category.
I’m in excellent company, including Joanne Wypijewski, for her brilliant “Carnal Knowledge” column in the Nation.
You can find out more about the awards and link to all the winning articles here.
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Poli Psy: Medical Necessities
Published December 11, 2009
If health care is going to be a public good, not a private luxury, all of us — including women — are going to have to stop acting like spoiled customers at Saks.
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Intern Nation
Published November 16, 2009
Can’t get a job? Why not give your services away for free? That way, you can ensure that no one else gets a job either!
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Discouraged Workers
Published October 28, 2009
Laid off? Washed up? Bummed out? Welcome to Free Agent Nation.
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Obama Nation?
Published September 17, 2009
Only days after the presidential election, I began receiving emails from the Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America — formerly Obama for America. Several times a week, they implored me to show my support for this or that presidential initiative, and to send money. Such an email arrived a half hour after the president delivered his health [...]
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Extreme Agitation
Published August 21, 2009
The opponents of health care reform are building a strategy of fomenting protesters’ frustration. The risk they run is achieving frustration — and burnout. And that suggests the way the pros can win. Read more at Seven Days.
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Chronic Insanity
Published June 26, 2009
Our so-called health-care “system” promotes and exploits the peculiar American illusion that the body is invulnerable and the spirit autonomous; that human need is a temporary aberration.
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Babying Bristol
Published May 28, 2009
Bristol, Levi, Sarah, Todd, Tripp, Trig — and what parents really want.
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Decent Exposure?
Published May 1, 2009
First the Keystone Komstocks started protecting teens from themselves by arresting them on child porn charges for “sexting.”
Now a Massachusetts legislator would criminalize the photographing of people over 60 and those with disabilities. Such adults would be statutorily unable to consent.
Sex crimes law is like a black hole: Once reason falls in, it can never re-emerge.