Politics
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The Limits of Student Speech
“If a high-schooler uses an off-campus computer to create offensive material that relates to his or her school life — writing nasty messages about school administrators or fellow students, for instance — is his or her speech still protected?” The…
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The Importance of Voting
“Valid objections all, but I’m urging you to please clap on your nasal clothespin and get ready to vote anyway, starting now. Now—before the real craziness begins, while you still have some time to inform yourself to the hilt and…
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Kids With Guns: Notes and Photographs from Palestine
Palestine Speaks is a San Francisco-based, Kickstarter-funded independent journalism initiative collecting stories of daily life in Palestine. Assistant editor and Rumpus photographer Timothy Faust recently traveled to Palestine with the project. This report for The Rumpus is excerpted from his…
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Video Readings For Authors Who Can’t Make Videos
As I sit here, writing on this website, thinking about the episode of Angel I just watched for the 50th time (don’t judge me), listening to various different YouTube channels (I change them every ten minutes), and wondering how the…
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Rafah Crossing
Approaching the Rafah crossing on the morning of its historic opening, I pass a lone Palestinian woman in her mid 20’s holding a newborn, walking into Egypt. Twenty yards behind her, sweltering in the late morning desert sun is a…
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Legacy
“The Legacy of Malcolm X” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is one hell of a read. You can read our interview with Coates here.
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Tourist Information
Nothin wounded goes uphill… It just don’t happen. I got stuck rereading that sentence on the plane for a long time.
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Black Lung Books
“Three advocacy groups have started a letter-writing campaign asking Scholastic Inc. to stop distributing the fourth-grade curriculum materials that the American Coal Foundation paid the company to develop.” It’s always good news when corporate sponsored “teaching materials” get called into…
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A Chicago Street Encounter With a Man Nearly Executed
He drives a white Cadillac stretch limo, vintage 1970s, with whitewall tires, black vinyl roof, leather interior. Smooth ride. It’s the kind of car you might have seen ferrying newlyweds back in its day. But instead of “just married,” painted…
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Books Behind Bars
“The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked a judge to block a South Carolina jail’s rules over what items inmates may receive while the group challenges a policy barring inmates from any reading materials other than the Bible.” From…
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The Urgent Matter of Books
People keep telling me that books are in danger of disappearing. E-books, Kindles, iPads will replace the object of the book as we know it. I’m not worried.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
News junkies beware! Hackers are taking advantage of the internet traffic spike prompted by Osama bin Laden’s death and embedding news coverage with malware. And of course, people got all snarky about his demise on Twitter. Apple isn’t the only one…