The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy – NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/fashion/lgbt-therapy-antioch-university.html?

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“My mother drank her way through my sympathy”

NYMag

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Donor Conceived Babies Grow up

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Nationalism vs. Cosmopolitanism

The American Interest

According to Huntington, postwar globalization had given rise to a new class of “global citizens” at the highest echelons of American academia, industry, and (bipartisan) politics—a “de-nationalized” elite whose “attitudes and behavior contrast with the overwhelming patriotism and nationalistic identification of the rest of the American public.” The jet-setting cosmopolitans tended to be far more supportive of free trade, open immigration, and activist foreign policy than most Americans. Huntington described this wide and allegedly growing gap as a major source of the decline in trust in democratic institutions since the 1960s.

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5 Messages I Really Needed (But Never Got) as a Queer Teenager — Everyday Feminism

http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/07/needed-to-hear-as-queer-teenager/

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Digging Up the Philistines

RNS

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Why Highways have become the center of civil rights protests

Wonkblog WaPo

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Why I am (Really) Not an Atheist: Rational Faith Pt 2

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2016/07/why-i-am-really-not-an-atheist-rational-faith-pt-2/

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Blood on Your Hands, Too – NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/opinion/blood-on-your-hands-too.html?_r=0&referer=

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What it looks like when you chart love, envy and heartbreak – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/14/what-it-looks-like-when-you-chart-everything-that-happens-in-your-life/

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