Politics
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“To briefly summarize a vast, complex literature…”
“…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
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 author, storyteller and Bernal resident Tamim Ansary will be reading…
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Some People are Always on the Right Side of History
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 Solidarity movement against Communisim. Died Friday at 90.
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Bright Lights, Big City and “The Shattering of the Self”
“…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 dismissed as but a clever trick when seen in a…
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Health Care Links
“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, “60 votes for what?” Insurers are exploiting the health care…
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Health Care Links
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 care lie. 24 Blue Dogs Have Said They Support a…
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Proofs of Concept for Legal Pot Packaging
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 designed an attractive box that holds 16, with an optional…
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“I don’t want to hide this and be miserable my whole life.”
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: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, explores the world…
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Planning Out the End
“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 governed and guided by technicians. It is part of the…
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Health Care Links
“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 care debate with major address. Michelle Obama says health care…
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The Ultimate Gateway Drug to Life on the Right
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 infatuation with Rand’s works is something of a rite of…
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Disturbing Journeys: A Look Inside Sex Trafficking
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 such activist, Mimi Chakarova, has spent an extensive amount of…