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“To briefly sum­ma­rize a vast, com­plex lit­er­a­ture…”

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • October 6, 2009
“…pro­longed and ex­treme stress in­hibits the bi­o­log­i­cal pro­cesses be­lieved to sup­port mem­o­ry in the brain.” In other words, science also says that torture yields unreliable information.
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Tamim Ansary At Red Hill Books

  • Michael Berger
  • October 5, 2009
As both a Rumpus regular and as an employee of Red Hill Books, I’m pleased to announce that on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 p.m. at Red Hill fellow Rumpus contributor, Award-winning…
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Some People are Always on the Right Side of History

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • October 5, 2009
Marek Edelman: leader of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (and late Warsaw Uprising); stayed in Poland to become a cardiologist and save lives where he couldn’t during the war; stood with the…
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Bright Lights, Big City and “The Shattering of the Self”

  • Seth Fischer
  • October 4, 2009
“…Jay McInerney’s 1984 publication of Bright Lights allows us excavation to an even earlier level of American self-confusion. The novel’s second-person narrative, which people found so powerfully affecting, cannot be…
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Health Care Links

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • September 29, 2009
“Senate Panel Rejects Pair of Public Options in Health Plan”… but is there a silver lining? Schumer and Baucus claim ‘We don’t have 60 votes.’ But the real question is,…
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Health Care Links

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • September 28, 2009
Which Way Will Harry Reid Go On Public Option? Senator Olympia Snowe is “the only Republican in Congress” who might vote for health care reform. Washington Times spreads new health…
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Proofs of Concept for Legal Pot Packaging

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • September 25, 2009
Print Magazine, anticipating the legalization of pot in the US within 15 years or so, asked four design firms to come up with commercial packaging for marijuana cigarettes. Strømme Throndsen…
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“I don’t want to hide this and be miserable my whole life.”

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • September 23, 2009
Supportive moms, special dances, harassment, unprepared school admins, gay straight alliance groups, and living a life “nearly incomprehensible to earlier generations of gay youth.” Benoit Denizet-Lewis, author of America Anonymous:…
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Planning Out the End

  • Seth Fischer
  • September 20, 2009
“The idea that economics will aid us in thinking through the problem of the destruction of the natural world… commits us to the assumption that our world ought to be…
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Health Care Links

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • September 18, 2009
“Health Care Reform: Where We Are and What Happens Next” How the Baucus plan punishes single people, especially single moms. Joe Biden to move to the frontlines of the health…
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The Ultimate Gateway Drug to Life on the Right

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • September 16, 2009
At the New Republic, there’s an amazing review of a new Ayn Rand biography by Jonathan Chait that actually explains everything you need to know about the American right. An…
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Disturbing Journeys: A Look Inside Sex Trafficking

  • Maddie Oatman
  • September 16, 2009
The recent Tides Momentum Leadership Conference featured innovators and activists from around the world passionate about discussing current challenges and striving to forge a more equitable and sustainable society. One…
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