Politics
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It’s Time to Vote
We’re voting this morning. You should too. Click here to find your voting location.
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The Rumpus Interview with Megan Stack
The six years Megan Stack spent in the Middle East reporting for the LA Times began as a sort of emergency assignment and ended with Every Man In This Village Is A Liar, her indelible memoir of an education in…
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The More Things Change…
In 1968, the year I was born, Ronald Reagan was considered too extreme to be the Republican nominee for the presidency. Richard Nixon was the nominee and served a term and a half before resigning under threat of impeachment. In…
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I Would Like Very Much to Hate You: A Rumpus Lamentation
My wife got upset last night, after she heard about the Rand Paul supporters who tackled a progressive activist named Lauren Valle. One of them stepped on her head. Valle suffered a concussion. The technical term is aggravated battery.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/25-10/31
This week: How Language Shapes Thought, the final Kaliedoscope Reading Series of the year, Muni Diaries Live! at the Makeout Room, and San Francisco’s favorite holiday (after Folsom Street Fair and LoveFest) — Halloween! Monday 10/25: While The Rumpus’ book…
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On Saving The World
“I know that books don’t save lives on the grand scale. They don’t end wars and such. They don’t cure cancer. But at the same time, books saved my life. And I know they’ve done that for friends of mine.”…
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Causing a Rumpus
Founding editor Stephen Elliott has a great interview up over at TruthDig in which he talks about activism, sex, this very website, and “The Art of the Overshare.”
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Register To Vote
If you live in California, tomorrow’s the last day to register to vote. You can download the form and print and sign and mail it in here. Or you can pick up a form at a post office, or most…
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“The World According To San Francisco”
I think this might be an accurate map, but I can’t remember with all the free pot and cocaine the mayor keeps giving me.
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A Special Message From
Steve Almond:Dear Readers, Citizens, Freaks, Like a lot of you, I’ve been frustrated the last two years. Despite winning the presidency and overwhelming majorities in both houses of congress, Democrats have failed to act boldly on issues ranging from climate change…
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Dickens in the Third World
”Neither a British nor American young man living in the twenty-first century can understand a Dickens as well as I can. I am living in a Dickens atmosphere.” George Packer tells the fascinating story of Somerset, “a toothpick-thin, boisterous young…