Politics
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The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day Organizer Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes coordinated the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, when 20 million people took to the streets and kicked off the environmental movement.
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Documenting the Human Cost
In 1991 the first President Bush signed a law making it illegal for the media to document the return of fallen US Soldiers. This law remained in effect until shortly after Obama’s swearing in. Big Picture offers a photo essay…
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U.S. Department of the Arts?
Famed producer Quincy Jones has asked President Obama to establish a cabinet-level position for culture and the arts. An online petition already has almost 300,000 signatures. Add your name to the list!
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Across the Harbor, Silver-Paced… and Soon Defaced?
Decades ago, Hart Crane wrote “To Brooklyn Bridge,” his most famous poem. “And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced / As though the sun took step of thee, yet left / Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,– / Implicitly thy…
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Border War Goes Both Ways
Last year, my pal James Verini wrote an extensive piece in Portfolio about the problem — and related policy hypocrisy — that allows the entire discussion of “border protection” to be exclusively focused on the drugs coming in (along with…
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Trevor Paglen reveals the “Blank Spots on the Map”
Trevor Paglen may be familiar for his 2008 appearance on The Colbert Report, where he talked about his book I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed By Me, a picture book of military unit patches…
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The Danger of Law Enforcement Puritans
This is the face of the new witch hunter–Jim Plowman, the Loudon County VA Commonwealth’s attorney, who tried to prosecute an educator for possession of child porn when the educator was just trying to do his job.
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Copula Mori
Just getting around to reading Wired’s recap on the Gaussian Copula, or the formula that destroyed the world banking system. Or, really, the formula that allowed the world banking system to destroy itself. The GC, as I like to call…
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Photographing Mexico’s Drug War
Since 2006 there have been some 9,500 deaths resulting from the Mexican government’s attempts to thwart drug cartels, putting an end to decades of passivity. In the last week Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have pledged US support. Big Picture…
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Sex With Presidents
The artist Justine Lai depicts herself having sex with each US president, painting them in order. She’s gotten as far as Ulysses S. Grant. (NSFW)
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This Modern World
This Modern World, Tom Tomorrow’s revolutionary, groundbreaking, relevant, and important newspaper strip is fully archived. Since 1990, the strip has been experimenting in backgrounds, gutters, bleeds, panel shapes, content, and collage in ways that almost no other strips, and even…