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The Most Tortured Relationship in America - The Atlantic

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Monogamy is one of the last bipartisan ideals—even if people struggle to live up to it.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 15:59 People like to say that American culture has a puritanical streak: one that entails, among other things, a certain haughty piousness, instilled by the killjoys who reached New England’s shores in the 17th century. Yet the Pew Research Center, in a pair of reports released last month, asked participants in various countries about a host of moral issues—and found few in the United States that were widely condemned. Spanking children? Doctor-assisted euthanasia? Clear majorities said they weren’t morally wrong. Gambling? Marijuana use? Compared with respondents in

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