Politics
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Fem-i-nist, adjective
“When anyone claims they aren’t a feminist, I assume they don’t know what they’re talking about.” —MariNaomi Rumpus artist MariNaomi gets all up in the dictionary and tells it like it is:
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THE WEEK IN GREED #10: GOP Nominee Faces Agony of Deceit
Pattern of habitual lying poses challenges for Romney campaign.
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Get Out of My Crotch
Cherry Bomb Books (a forthcoming imprint of Bona Fide Books) is seeking writers for a nonfiction collection tentatively titled Get Out of My Crotch, a response to the current legislation and language concerning women’s health, including reproductive health but also…
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The Language of American Politics
At The American Interest, David Green issues “A Call To Linguistic Disobedience.” In his essay, Green argues that some of the most basic linguistic techniques used to describe the state of American politics (or, to “define the situation”) – such…
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Romney Picking Up Good Vibrations
Over at The New York Times, Daniel Nester considers the complicated politics of the Beach Boys and muses on “the need to reconcile an artist’s politics with his art.” “You might say that the Beach Boys’ long history of feuds,…
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Truth in Nonfiction: A Testimonial
Freshman year of college I was a Republican hardliner and Pentecostal Christian. I had just graduated from an Appalachian public school where you could sometimes find teachers’ names written inside a textbook cover under the heading “issued to.”
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THE WEEK IN GREED #9: Triumph of the Ill
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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Today in the Supreme Court
Unless you’ve been away from a news source all day, you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as constitutional by a vote of 5-4. Probably the biggest surprise was that Chief…
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The Summer (and Autumn) of Dark Money
Foul-mouthed adman and blogger George Parker talked recently with fellow Brit Nicole Powers, in a conversation published on the Suicide Girls website, about the American Dream, the ad business, Super PACs, and what Parker calls the coming “shitstorm” of Citizen…
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Today in the Supreme Court…
My favorite Supreme Court watcher, Dahlia Lithwick, is hosting her yearly round table on SCOTUS decisions over at Slate. Joining her this year are Judge Richard Posner and Professor Walter Dellinger. The Supreme Court handed down a number of decisions…
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What Do We Call It?
Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown used the word “vagina” while speaking on the House floor yesterday against a bill restricting abortions. Scandalized House Republicans still aren’t over it: Brown was rebuked and then barred from speaking in a debate on…
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“Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One.”
At The New York Times, Rumpus columnist Steve Almond argues that liberals are treating “for-profit propaganda as news” to the detriment of our political system. Almond makes a strong case for ignoring the demagogues and instead seeking out those who want…