Politics
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Flop!: Chaos, Tragedy and the (Un-American) Beauty of Soccer
To appreciate soccer one has to understand that there’s beauty in failure.
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The Comedian Mayor: The Rumpus Interview with Jón Gnarr
Iceland’s most famous comedian ran for mayor of Reykjavic, and won…
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Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Sentenced to Two Years for ‘Hooliganism’
Today in a Russian court, three members (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alekhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30) of the all-female Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism.” (For those unfamiliar with the story, here…
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Pussy Riot Link Round-Up
Three women of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot are on trial in Russia for hooliganism, which carries a charge up to seven years in prison, following their arrest in March after a performance of what they’ve called a ‘punk prayer’…
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The Rumpus Interview with Karen Prior
A formerly freckle-faced pothead with a penchant for getting arrested, Prior admits she doesn’t hide emotions well and so to some, she can be a handful.
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The Rumpus Interview with Hart Seely
Tom Barbash talks with author and reporter Hart Seely about winning ballgames from your couch, Donald Rumsfeld, faking sanity, and the fate of quality journalism in the online era of click chasing.
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Steve Almond on Comedy and Politics
“Why take to the streets when Stewart and Colbert are on the case? It’s a lot easier, and more fun, to experience the war as a passive form of entertainment than as a source of moral distress requiring citizen activism.”…
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The Language of American Politics
At The American Interest, David Green issues “A Call To Linguistic Disobedience.” In his essay, Green argues that some of the most basic linguistic techniques used to describe the state of American politics (or, to “define the situation”) – such…
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Sport v. Human Rights
Eurozine’s Mihir Bose lays out the development of modern athletics in connection with human rights, citing the political and ethical pressures involved in not-so-nice countries hosting major sports events. He writes that the International Olympic Committee, among other major governing…
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“Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One.”
At The New York Times, Rumpus columnist Steve Almond argues that liberals are treating “for-profit propaganda as news” to the detriment of our political system. Almond makes a strong case for ignoring the demagogues and instead seeking out those who want…
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Longing for Peace
“On Sept. 11, 1948, my father, Khalilullah Nuristani, was born under the same burden of greatness. In retrospect, he must have believed that he could fulfill what had been his father’s unfulfilled destiny. My father became a tireless fighter for…