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Obama's Jobs Gamble

Obama's Jobs Gamble

He dares the Republicans to thwart his $447 billion proposal. Can he possibly win?

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Why Trutherism Lives On

Why Trutherism Lives On

The 9/11 conspiracy movement has faded, but the conspiracy theory will never die.

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Contagion: A Dialogue

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We dodged the bullet with SARS.

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Probability Neglect: How the Government Wildly Overestimates the Risks of Terrorism

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What Exactly Would Happen if We Did Get Rid of Social Security?

What Exactly Would Happen if We Did Get Rid of Social Security?

Contagion: Soderbergh Elevates a Virus Horror Flick Into an Amazing Thriller

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Fall TV Has Emasculated Men. But It Hasn't Empowered Women.

Fall TV Has Emasculated Men. But It Hasn't Empowered Women.

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Fall TV is full of emasculated men. Does that mean it's also full of empowered women?
By Jessica Grose
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Whitney Cummings as Whitney Cummings, Chris D'Elia as Alex Miller in "Whitney." Click image to expand.For a while, it seemed as though this fall was going to be the season of the young-lady sitcom. 29-year-old comedian Whitney Cummings--the foulmouthed ingenue of many Friars Club Roasts--has two pilots about twentysomething women: Two Broke Girls (CBS) and Whitney (NBC). She stars in the latter. Elizabeth Meriwether, who is about the same age as Cummings, is behind a pilot for Fox called The New Girl, starring the terminally adorable Zooey Deschanel.

Clearing the way for these young women to have their moment is a parallel phenomenon, one that TV Guide calls "the emasculation of men." It's a theme picked up by several new series. In Tim Allen's Last Man Standing, the Home Improvement star plays a Tea Party-loving dad who rages impotently against a changing country and a house full of women. In Man Up!, stunted dudes play video games and hide from their wives. And then there's Work It, a Bosom Buddies rehash in which men dress up like women in order to get jobs in the "mancession." According to the Wall Street Journal, Work It was explicitly inspired by Hanna Rosin's Atlantic magazine essay "The End of Men," and the other two seem at least implicitly influenced (here's Rosin's take on these shows at the Atlantic's website). All have the same premise: Male economic dominance is over and it's the women's turn now.

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