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							<title><![CDATA[American History Is a Parade of Horrors - and Heroes]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-american-history-parade-100055088.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephanie Coontz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a historian in the age of the 1619 Project and the debates over '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'critical race theory,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I find many of the audiences I address fall into one of two camps. Some celebrate American exceptionalism and resist dwelling on horrors like slavery or settler colonialism. Others...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Unmarried Americans Are Changing Everything]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/opinions/how-unmarried-americans-are-changing-the-game-coontz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephanie Coontz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans have long presumed that being unmarried, especially as they got older, was a sentence, but the fact is, it is now common, widespread--and a game-changer both for our emotional lives and our social policies, writes Stephanie Coontz.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Story of the American Family]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/real-story-american-family</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephanie Coontz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the culture wars of the 1970s and 1980s, conservative crusaders worried about threats to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'traditional'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' families stemming from both the top and the bottom of the social ladder.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now Who's the Moral Majority?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/06/opinions/coontz-moral-majority/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephanie Coontz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The public outrage over the "religious freedom" bills recently passed in Arkansas and Indiana caught the governors of those states completely off-guard, judging by their confused and contradictory responses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Changing Rules of Marriage, for Rich &amp; Poor]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephanie Coontz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OVER the past 40 years, the geography of family life has been destabilized by two powerful forces pulling in opposite directions and occasionally scraping against each other, much like tectonic plates. One is the striking progress toward equality between men and women. The other is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The &quot;War on Poverty&quot; Is Not Over]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/opinion/coontz-war-on-poverty/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephanie Coontz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(CNN) -- In a State of the Union address 50 years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared "unconditional war on poverty." Over the next year and a half, anti-poverty warriors developed new health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, increased Social Security...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When We Hated Mom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/opinion/08coontz.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephanie Coontz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ONE of the most enduring myths about feminism is that 50 years ago women who stayed home full time with their children enjoyed higher social status and more satisfying lives than they do today. All this changed, the story goes, when Betty Friedan published her 1963 best seller, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The...]]></description>
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