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Friendship
July 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Gives Strange Explanation of Why Epstein Friendship Ended
It wasn’t because of Epstein’s sex trafficking of young girls.
February 4, 2016
Eric Russell
The Science Behind Straight Women’s Love for Gay Men
September 8, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Female Friendship Myth
Lacking a gang of female friends is a greater stigma than being single
March 3, 2015
Kyle Chayka
Let’s Really Be Friends
A defense of online intimacy
July 10, 2014
Alice Robb
Grown Women Don't Need a 'Best Friend'
No matter what Amy Poehler tells you
June 24, 2014
The New Republic Staff
These Vintage Photos of Naked Soldiers Show the Intimate Side of War
January 8, 2014
Alice Robb
Make New Friends, Jettison the Old
Unlikely data from cell phone usage: The number of friends we have never changes
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