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The Week in Greed #16: How to Take a Salesman to the Woodshed

  • Steve Almond
  • October 15, 2012
Voters at home, the ones still open to voting for him, need Obama to take the fight to Romney, to speak with urgency and moral force. He needs to have lines of attack prepared for particular topics, and those attacks need to tell a larger story.
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Because He Makes The World Safer

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • October 5, 2012
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about why he’s voting for Obama for the 90 Days, 90 Reasons project. “Mitt Romney… goes on the attack before he knows all the facts.…
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A Matter of Dignity

  • Roxane Gay
  • October 4, 2012
Certain constituencies are always shoved aside, always told their issues will be addressed at some nebulous point in the future. During a lengthy debate, to see these issues merit neither discussion nor debate speaks to how little dignity is valued on the political stage.
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The Week in Greed #15: Seven Unpopular Truths About Last Night’s Great Debate

  • Steve Almond
  • October 4, 2012
1. Mitt Romney convincingly portrayed a sympathetic human being.
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90 Days, 90 Reasons

  • Aimee Burnett
  • August 8, 2012
With time waning in the electoral race between Obama and Romney, the lack of energy and enthusiasm is striking. Obama’s reelection seems to be met with the proverbial sound of…
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Judith Butler At Guernica

  • Michael Berger
  • April 8, 2010
“All I really have to say about life is that for it to be regarded as valuable, it has to first be regarded as grievable. A life that is in…
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Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block

  • Steve Almond
  • January 5, 2010
I’m not sure what feminist nomenclature Katie Roiphe would assign herself, but I can’t fathom why she would choose to “assign primacy” to The Man.
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Chomsky At Guernica

  • Michael Berger
  • November 19, 2009
“The people we call intellectuals aren’t necessarily smarter or more knowledgeable than anyone else. But they happen to have a lot of privilege, and privilege confers responsibility. And so they…
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Secret Treaty Is Very, Very Scary

  • Seth Fischer
  • November 8, 2009
Boing Boing, the EFF and Michael Geist are reporting that a secret treaty that could determine the future of file sharing is being negotiated without any input from the public…
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Eliza Doolittle in the White House

  • M. Rebekah Otto
  • March 1, 2009
In her essay “Speaking in Tongues” in The New York Review of Books, February 26, 2009, Zadie Smith examines Barack Obama’s doubleness, not just his biracial genetic history but how…
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The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers

  • Scott Hutchins
  • February 20, 2009
The Unrepentant Terrorist? Founder of the Weather Underground, and favorite whipping boy of the failed McCain campaign, Bill Ayers talks to The Rumpus about the ’60s, the present, and his…
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What I Learned at AWP

  • Andrew Altschul
  • February 17, 2009
The Rumpus dispatched dozens of our top reporters to Chicago. None of them were heard from again.
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