election 2016
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Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016
What kind of change do I want, and what does fighting for it look like, today?
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The Clinton Reading List
For Mother Jones, Jenny Luna notes the top four books on the current New York Times bestseller list: all books written by conservative writers speaking against Hillary Clinton: As seen with the success of Mitt Romney’s 2010 book, No Apology, sales don’t…
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Ambiguous Understanding
Author of The Black History of the White House Clarence Lusane addresses Michelle Obama’s statements at the 2016 DNC about the role of slave labor in the construction of the White House: I think [George Washington] always had an ambiguous understanding in relationship…
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The World’s Nicest Dad
Sara Benincasa‘s latest book, Tim Kaine Is Your Nice Dad, has made its way onto the bestseller lists on Amazon and Kindle since its electronic release on Friday. The 26-page book, a parody of Tim Kaine as “the world’s nicest dad,” was…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tiny Bubbles
A bubble is a sphere of privilege, but it also provides the safety to mix up more soapy water and to blow new bubbles to protect what we hold dear.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #2: In a World Gone Tilt-a-Whirl
Society is falling apart, the daily news seems to say. Living in interesting times, it is all too easy to fear that our work is meaningless.
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So You Want to Be President
This year over a thousand people signed up to run for President of the United States. And you thought we had no choices. Craig Tomashoff decided to drive across country and see who some of these candidates are.
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Father John Misty on Numbness and Evil
During a performance at WPXN’s XPoNential Music Festival, Father John Misty decided he couldn’t bring himself to give the show his audience expected and delivered a sermon against numbness instead. Criticizing his own role in producing a climate where dissenters are satisfied…
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Regret for the Deal
Tony Schwartz wrote Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal for a pretty chunk of change (a quarter of a million plus half of all royalties), but now says he regrets doing so: “I put lipstick on a pig,” he…
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Trump Alchemy Examined
“Get more, that inner music seems to be telling him. Get, finally, enough. Refute a lifetime of critics. Create a pile of unprecedented testimonials, attendance receipts, polling numbers, and pundit gasps that will, once and for all, prove—what?” George Saunders patrols the Trump campaign trail and…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Reed
John Reed discusses Snowball’s Chance, his parody of Animal Farm, and the lawsuits, debates, and discoveries that followed the book’s publication.
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A Fictional Tyrant Come to Life
At the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada compares Donald Trump with the fictional dictators of two novels that seem to uncannily anticipate the rise of today’s foul-mouthed “politician.” Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here (1935) and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America…