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(The Root) –

“My best friend is a guy I have known for almost seven years. We’re former co-workers, and he now lives in a nearby state with his girlfriend. We’re both busy with work and our relationships and don’t speak very often, maybe once every other week. Mostly we text and send emails sporadically to keep in touch. Our friendship is strictly platonic, but my boyfriend of almost three years has suddenly become irrational and insecure, saying that he is ‘uncomfortable’ with me having a male best friend, and he has asked me to end that relationship. I cherish my relationship and my friendship and can’t imagine giving up either. What do I do?” –T.E.

Despite the opinion of another popular relationship expert, I’m of the opinion that yes, men and women actually can be friends. I’ve had a male “best” friend,

On Thursday, President Obama delivered a major speech at the Natonal Defense University in Washington, D.C., on the changing face of the war on terror, repairing U.S. relations with the Muslim community, his efforts to close Guantánamo Bay and the necessity for drones, reports NBC News. 

“We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us, mindful of James Madison’s warning that ‘No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.’ Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of terror,” he declared in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington. 

As part of that effort, the president announced more narrow parameters for the use of drones to kill terrorists overseas and limit collateral casualties and he reiterated his pledge to renew efforts to

On Wednesday the Chicago School Board voted to close 50 schools, the largest number of closures in history, reports the Huffington Post.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis blasted the district’s actions in a statement following the vote, saying Wednesday was “a day of mourning for the children Chicago.”

“Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children,” Lewis said. “Closing schools is not an education plan. It is a scorched earth policy.” 

Unfortunately, the closure occurred despite heated protests from one 9-year-old Asean Johnson, who spoke out on Monday against the impending shuttering:

“You should be investing in these schools, not closing them. You should be supporting these schools, not closing them,” Asean said amidst roaring applause. “We shall not

Customers enter a Hollister Co. store, owned by Abercrombie Fitch Co., in Oberhausen, Germany