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Turning Purple: Blood Feast

  • Leigh Hopkins
  • November 5, 2019
It isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
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What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Healthcare

  • The Rumpus
  • July 21, 2017
Here's a list of wonderful books that look at physical and mental health from many different perspectives. By the time we read through the entire list, maybe Congress will have come to their senses.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: The Absolute Necessity of Softball

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • June 28, 2017
And then one guy on his team yells, “You have to touch the bases, buddy! This is still America!” That is all it takes. For one guy on the other side to put country over party.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: I Watched the Comey Hearings in a DC Bar with a Face Full of Novocaine

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • June 9, 2017
When you live in a political football it’s hard to ignore getting kicked.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. #TrumpOwnsAmerica

  • Kim Wright
  • December 25, 2016
He said, "You've got to understand I would have burned down anything just to get somebody to listen to me."
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 6): “To Elsie”

  • David Biespiel
  • November 22, 2016
Now the battle is joined. I will prosecute my part of it as a writer till the last dog dies...
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Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016

  • Jerald Isseks
  • August 25, 2016
What kind of change do I want, and what does fighting for it look like, today?
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tiny Bubbles

  • Martha Bayne
  • July 31, 2016
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 Man with the Biggest Mouth

  • Lee Matalone
  • March 9, 2016
“The guys with the biggest mouths are always the most fragile.” –Donald Trump, at a rally in New Orleans, March 4th 2016 Leaving the airplane hangar, thousands of Trump 2016…
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Wet with the Tears of a Pedant

  • Charley Locke
  • August 14, 2015
Nearly every page of this book is wet with the tears of a pedant. Nostalgic for the wordplay of the Republican primary debate? Barton Swaim has got you covered in…
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Lie to Me

  • Rachel Weiner
  • December 23, 2009
The latest memoir of the 2008 Presidential campaign is a fake book about fake events by a fake political operative.
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