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Rumpus Exclusive: “First Amendment (in the moment, grotesquely exotic)”

  • Wendy Willis
  • February 5, 2019
I am not certain where I was when I first heard about the marketplace of ideas.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Internal and the External: A Conversation with Wendy Willis

  • Marissa Korbel
  • February 5, 2019
Wendy Willis discusses her new essay collection, THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, MY DEAR.
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  • ENOUGH
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ENOUGH: The Price of Silence

  • The Rumpus
  • December 4, 2018
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: To the Bureaucrats, with Love

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • October 13, 2017
About 173,000 people work for federal agencies in this Washington DC, and let’s be absolutely clear from the get-go: the mood among them is grim.
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Readers Report: The New Patriot

  • Susan Clements
  • July 4, 2017
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The New Patriot.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jaimee Wriston Colbert

  • Christine Maul Rice
  • December 25, 2016
Life’s inequities can be cruel, but in the end we are all part of our communities; suffering though we may be, we are not alone.
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The Digital Dictator

  • J. Cavanaugh Simpson
  • November 22, 2016
I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night –Roman emperor Gaius Caligula (AD 12–AD 41). Part of…
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The Rumpus Interview with Malka Older

  • Justin Ells
  • November 8, 2016
Malka Older discusses her debut novel Infomocracy, the nature of elections, and the future of democracy.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • April 26, 2016
The government has always been spying on you. Updating the search for immortality. People could judge you for giving bad email. Facebook is not social networking.
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A Blind Eye to History

  • Michelle Vider
  • March 21, 2016
At Aeon, Robert Neer discusses the particular absence of military history from American universities. While general history courses cover the overall societal impact of some military campaigns and political science…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Greater Than Themselves

  • Stephen Dau
  • October 11, 2015
Stephen Dau writes from Brussels on the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, and how average citizens are stepping up to meet the needs that the government cannot.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 6, 2015
Rape deniers of the 18th century. People just don’t get science, even though they love it. Ad blockers and your future Internet. A guide for politicians on Twitter.
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