Tag: Men and Boys

5 Convicts Familiar With Navalny’s Prison Confirm Hellish Conditions

Locked in an Arctic prison, Aleksei A. Navalny is likely to have spent his final days in some of the most inhumane conditions within Russia’s extensive penitentiary system, according to five men who have served sentences in the same penal colony as the Russian opposition leader. The men described in phone interviews unbearable cold, repulsive […]

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A Radio Station’s Call Letters Announce Its Purpose: KGAY

Fog clouded the San Jacinto Mountains recently as Brad Fuhr approached the headquarters of KGAY, a radio station in an undistinguished Palm Springs, California, strip mall. Fuhr, the station’s chief executive, was tuned to KGAY in his all-electric Volvo, and the morning’s soundtrack included “Bad of the Heart,” George Lamond’s 1990 freestyle cri de coeur […]

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Nikki Haley Hits Donald Trump Where It Hurts: With Age Comments

If vanity is the soft underbelly of maleness, a vulnerable area between the armor of masculinity and the kill zone, it appears it was Donald J. Trump’s famous self-regard that was the target when Nikki Haley ramped up her attacks on her opponent in New Hampshire this week. Soon after Mr. Trump appeared to confuse […]

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Bill Beard Was a Good Man. Then He Committed a Terrible Crime.

This is the sixth in the series “How America Heals,” in which Nicholas Kristof is examining the interwoven crises devastating working-class America and exploring paths to recovery. .g-goldbergseriesinfo{ position: relative; display: flex; overflow: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.125rem 1.25rem 1.0625rem; border: 1px solid var(–color-stroke-quaternary,#DFDFDF); color: var(–color-content-secondary,#363636); max-width: 600px; margin: 1.3125rem auto 1.5rem; width: 100%; max-width: […]

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A Small-Town Stabbing Takes On a Larger Significance for France

The traditional village ball 18 minutes outside the city ended in the traditional way: young men fighting outside. What made it different were the flashing knives. Three young men were rushed to the hospital early in the morning on Nov. 19. One, the 16-year-old captain of a local rugby team, died en route from a […]

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In Myanmar, Accounts of Disappearances Create a Climate of Fear

At least 16 young men disappeared last month. In four cities across Myanmar, under cover of darkness, armed groups took them to police stations, according to family members and some of the men themselves. Some were released after paying ransoms. In other cases, failure to pay led to forced conscription into the military. Other men […]

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Shooting of 3 Palestinian Men in Vermont Investigated as Possible Hate Crime

The police in Burlington, Vt., on Sunday were investigating the shooting of three students of Palestinian descent as a possible hate crime, the city’s mayor said. The three victims, all men in their 20s and students of American universities, were walking near the University of Vermont on Saturday when they were shot and wounded by […]

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An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men

Background: The life expectancy gap has substantially widened — and shrunk — before. At the turn of the 20th century, women had a life expectancy just two years higher than men, Dr. Yan said. But over the next 75 years, that gap began to widen, largely because more men smoked and developed cardiovascular disease or […]

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Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like.

This may well be true. But harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today. Having written about gender, dating, and reproduction for years, I’m struck […]

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Italy Misses a #MeToo Moment in Prime Minister Meloni’s Breakup

Since Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, announced over social media last month that she was dumping her longtime boyfriend, Italians have hardly stopped talking about it. They have obsessed over the leaks of audio and video tapes revealing Andrea Giambruno, a television news anchor who is also the father of the prime minister’s […]

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Rape, Race and a Decades-Old Lie That Still Wounds

The phone echoed in Farid El Haïry’s home in northern France. It was February 1999. A rural police officer was on the line, asking if he could come down to the gendarmerie for a chat. “I asked them why and was it urgent,” he says. It’s nothing serious, he remembers being told. Come when you […]

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Gerry Turner Is the First ‘Golden Bachelor.’ Just Don’t Call Him a Silver Fox.

Women keep approaching Gerry Turner in airports, asking to pose for pictures with him. This is not something that ever happened in the first seven decades of his life. But a lot has changed since Mr. Turner, 72, signed up to date 22 women on a reality television show. For example: He has been spending […]

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Book Review: ‘What About Men?,’ by Caitlin Moran

WHAT ABOUT MEN? A Feminist Answers the Question, by Caitlin Moran Caitlin Moran was giving a speech, and she was annoyed. For years, she’d been on this circuit — talking about her books, her columns, feminism and the state of womanhood. Everywhere she went, she seemed to get the same question: What was her advice […]

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The Young Men of the Crick: Unfinished Lives on the Arizona-Utah Border

Several years into photographing the unorthodox residential architecture of members of the F.L.D.S. along the Arizona-Utah border, I crossed paths with an 18-year-old former F.L.D.S. member named Jobee Cooke. Before meeting him, Short Creek was all but impenetrable to me. When I arrived for the first time in 2014, the F.L.D.S. still had a stronghold […]

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Affirmative Action Is Still in Effect. For Men.

The number of women seeking higher degrees started soaring in the 1960s and ’70s, and by the early ’80s, more women were attending college than men. The trend continued upward, so much so that by 1999 some universities had admissions policies that explicitly favored men. At the University of Georgia, admissions officers automatically gave male […]

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