Politics
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Blame Game
At Clutch, Evette Dionne writes an open letter to Abigail Fisher, the young woman whose case against the University of Texas is currently being heard by the Supreme Court. Fisher claims that her whiteness was held against her, leading to…
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The Rumpus Review of How To Survive a Plague
The response to the AIDS epidemic that ripped through the gay community starting in the early years of the Reagan administration can be best characterized by how most health and social issues are dealt with in contemporary politics today, with…
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Because He Makes The World Safer
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about why he’s voting for Obama for the 90 Days, 90 Reasons project. “Mitt Romney… goes on the attack before he knows all the facts. He wants to draw red lines (with regards to Iran’s…
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A Matter of Dignity
Certain constituencies are always shoved aside, always told their issues will be addressed at some nebulous point in the future. During a lengthy debate, to see these issues merit neither discussion nor debate speaks to how little dignity is valued…
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The Week in Greed #15: Seven Unpopular Truths About Last Night’s Great Debate
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
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 someone calling to her through the window.
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The Politics of Entitlement
To be entitled means believing you have an inherent right to something. It is very easy to feel entitled, to feel like we deserve a certain quality of life or valuable opportunities. I don’t know that anyone is immune from…
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A Libyan Embassy Roundup
Yesterday afternoon, the story I knew was that an Israeli Jew filmmaker had put out a trailer that offended Libyan Muslims so much that they’d stormed the US consulate in Benghazi and murdered US Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 consulate…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening
The editors of Throwing Stones at the Moon shed light on Colombia’s human rights crisis and the power of bringing survivors’ voices to a conversation dominated by the perpetrators and beneficiaries of the conflict.
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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH DAVID REES
With the War on Terror less than a month old, David Rees sat up in his Brooklyn apartment one night and wrote eight comic strips about the world’s newest (and vaguest) war. His frustrations were on full display. His method:…
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The Post-Fact-Check Campaign
For weeks now, the Romney campaign has run ads claiming that President Obama has gutted the work requirement for welfare recipients. The response has varied. Fact checkers Politifact and the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler have called this attack what it…
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The Week in Greed #13: The Speech Obama Didn’t Give
Steve Almond imagines the speech he wishes President Obama would give at the Democratic National Convention: