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Steve Almond

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Steve Almond's most recent book, Against Football, was a New York Times bestseller for at least three seconds.
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Week in Greed #18: They Were Careless People

  • Steve Almond
  • November 5, 2012
I remember that it was late at night and I was returning to my dorm, having just watched Ronald Reagan win re-election with an unprecedented 60 percent of the popular…
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Week in Greed #17: Conservatives Storm the Week in Greed!

  • Steve Almond
  • October 26, 2012
I felt it was important for Rumpus readers to hear what conservatives have to say for themselves. So I spent the past month interviewing a bunch.
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The Week in Greed #16: How to Take a Salesman to the Woodshed

  • Steve Almond
  • October 15, 2012
Voters at home, the ones still open to voting for him, need Obama to take the fight to Romney, to speak with urgency and moral force. He needs to have lines of attack prepared for particular topics, and those attacks need to tell a larger story.
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The Week in Greed #15: Seven Unpopular Truths About Last Night’s Great Debate

  • Steve Almond
  • October 4, 2012
1. Mitt Romney convincingly portrayed a sympathetic human being.
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The Week in Greed #14: My Job Is Not to Worry About Those People

  • Steve Almond
  • September 20, 2012
I remember that it was a sunny day in El Paso, as it almost always was, and I was upstairs with my girlfriend in our dusty apartment when we heard…
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: George Singleton

  • Steve Almond
  • September 19, 2012
George has never studied literature with me. There’s nothing I could teach him that a good bottle of cough medicine hasn’t already.
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The Week in Greed #13: The Speech Obama Didn’t Give

  • Steve Almond
  • September 6, 2012
Steve Almond imagines the speech he wishes President Obama would give at the Democratic National Convention:
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The Week in Greed #12: Who Let the Dog Whistles Out?

  • Steve Almond
  • August 31, 2012
The goal isn’t just to rile white voters up, but to make them feel that their own racist impulses are merely reasonable responses to a culture stacked against them.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #11: The Ayn Rand Program

  • Steve Almond
  • August 17, 2012
I know I’m supposed to write about Paul Ryan, because he’s the new media brand, but I’m having trouble getting the guys in the Give-A-Shit Department on board.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #10: GOP Nominee Faces Agony of Deceit

  • Steve Almond
  • July 18, 2012
Pattern of habitual lying poses challenges for Romney campaign.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #9: Triumph of the Ill

  • Steve Almond
  • June 29, 2012
Ten years ago, in the midst of a lengthy depression, I found a lump in my lower forty and decided, with the help of my depression, that I had cancer.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #8: Explaining Taxes to a Five Year Old

  • Steve Almond
  • June 8, 2012
One nice thing about small children is that they aren’t scared to ask questions. They haven’t completely absorbed the idea that ignorance is shameful.
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