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  • Politics

This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • October 5, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
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  • Politics

This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • April 27, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…
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  • Politics

This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • December 1, 2016
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia, a new Rumpus column in which I, your passionate, sometimes angry, mostly emotional, Aries/Taurus cusp host, will highlight PEOTUS-related news that you need to know.…
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Publishing Industry’s Diversity Limits Revealed

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 29, 2016
JK Rowling has published rejection letters she received writing under the name Robert Galbraith. Rowling has racked up book sales worth billions for the Harry Potter series, but set out to…
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Professors Are the Canary in the Coal Mine

  • Ian MacAllen
  • November 17, 2014
Though plenty of adjunct professors still teach students, the full-time, tenured, middle-class professor position is nearing extinction. Adjunct professors are paid at wages below the poverty line while the costs of the…
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Why, Zombies, Why?

  • Graham Todd
  • June 11, 2012
After the recent resurgence in talk about zombification in the media last week, Kristin Rawls of AlterNet breaks down our country’s obsession with the undead and the possibility it’s our…
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