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For The New York Times, deciding which images are too offensive for publication is a tricky business.
On Monday, the paper published an image of Niki Johnson's Eggs Benedict, a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI fashioned entirely out of condoms.
The artwork is not hate-based, the Milwaukee artist told the Times, but is meant only to critique Benedict's views on sex and contraception while raising awareness about public health.
What I want to do is really destigmatize the condom, normalize it, she told the newspaper. I've watched kids and parents talk about condoms. It opens a door to talking about what those things are and what they do.
The Times' decision to run an image of Eggs Benedict comes just five months after it opted not to show Charlie Hebdo's infamously provocative artwork.
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From 1950 to 1980 the size of government doubled in the developed world and then stopped dead in 1980. This great restraint on the growth of government happened everywhere. It was not just Thatcher...
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Obama Removes TPP’s Anti-Slavery Clause, Then Attacks Confederate Flag As “Symbol Of Slavery”
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US lawmakers drop complaints that Malaysia, as a notorious slavery hub, doesn’t qualify for membership in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
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It appears the U.S. Supreme Court is about to trample the constitutions of 31 states – another frontal assault against the family.
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ISIS jihadis responded to the Supreme Court’s recent decision on gay marriage by killing accused gay men by pushing them off a roof.
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Many party officials see an opening to turn the election toward economic and national security issues.
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Jimmy Carter said "the United States’ influence and prestige and respect in the world is probably lower than it was six or seven years ago"
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Fast food Mexican restaurant Chipotle distributed "Which way do you sway?” coupons to capitalize on the recent decision by the Supreme Court to uphold gay-marriage in all fifty states.
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They’re predominantly “white, married men over the age of 55,” say researchers.
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Broadcaster and writer accuses London college of rush to judgment in forcing Nobel prize-winning scientist to quit over remarks about women
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A group of whistle-blowers from Veterans Affairs facilities across the country is calling for the replacement of interim VA Inspector General Richard Griffin, arguing in a letter to President Obama that the VA's chief watchdog is "unable to fulfill the responsibilities and duties" of the job.
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Ted Cruz said Donald Trump shouldn't apologize "for speaking out against the problem that is illegal immigration"
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As the left celebrates in wild Dionysian fashion the moral absolution of godking Justice Anthony Kennedy for homosexuality and same-sex marriage, conservatives prepare for the next round of assaults on their religious freedom.
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Obama's job approval numbers are sinking as American attitudes about the nation's progress have taken a turn for the worse, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
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A new WalletHub study released just ahead of the Independence Day holiday weekend finds that New York ranks as the worst among the bottom ten least patriotic states.
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The US and Cuba will on Wednesday announce the opening of embassies in each other's capitals, a senior US official says.
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Jonathan Hutson says most US Americans are on board with expanding background checks to save lives, while John Lott argues gun control emboldens criminals.
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"If a university official says, ‘I believe the most qualified candidate should get the job,’ does that really mean ‘people of color are given unfair benefits?’"
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#371774
I received a lot of feedback this past weekend about my piece responding to the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling. Many people seemed to take exception to my radical position that men and woman can conceive children. They didn't explicitly disagree with that theory, but they did deny the...
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Parents across the nation are in open revolt against the testing mania that has seized public schools under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the Common Core national standards.
