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The Birtherism of a Nation
Mitt Romney is now and has always been running the “I’m the white guy” campaign. The strategy’s not his alone. The GOP’s four-year approach to the 2012 election has been,…
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The Right’s Dreams of American Apartheid
It’s tragic but not surprising that the election of the nation’s first black president would accelerate a racist, nationwide movement to disenfranchise people of color, the poor and the elderly….
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Perry: Texans will Pay to Deny Health Care to Millions of Texans
Governor Rick Perry’s decision to refuse to participate in federal Medicaid expansion will not only condemn millions of Texans to ill health, suffering and unnecessary death. It will force local…
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Eagle Forum backs Limbaugh, says Sandra Fluke “should be absolutely ashamed”
You really don’t want to look under some rocks, but then sometimes the rocks are picked up by others and you have no choice. That happened to me this morning…
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The Birtherism of a Nation
Posted on August 24, 2012 | 1 CommentMitt Romney is now and has always been running the “I’m the white guy” campaign. The strategy’s not his alone. The GOP’s four-year approach to the 2012 election has been,... -
GOP Wolves In Grandma’s Nightie — Run, Red, Run
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Recognition Through Violence
Posted on July 22, 2012 | 1 CommentWithin a few hours of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, the film critic Roger Ebert made a provocative observation in a New York Times essay: I don’t know if James...
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Shake the Dust
Sometimes beauty hides in the magic of a URL. The nearly indecipherable strings of letters and numbers that only make sense when fed into a machine.
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Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs – Alone in This Together
In my last review of Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs I promised a follow up about how their album would have a living room sound to it–meaning intimate and…
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The Fall to Earth
Ten years later the hallucinogenic events of September 11, 2001, remain enigmatic and nightmare-like. There is no shared, uniform view because our experiences of that day are so disparate. There…
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We Need a Little Light
What interesting parallels I’m having this week with the stories I wrote ten years ago as the Slate Diarist not long after 9/11. There was a lot of talk in…
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Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
In the days before everyone’s grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet’s greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn’t have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
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From Gender Violence to Gender Democracy: What Will It Take?
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Shake the Dust
Sometimes beauty hides in the magic of a URL. The nearly indecipherable strings of letters and numbers that only make sense when fed into a machine.
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Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
In the days before everyone’s grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet’s greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn’t have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
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Part 2: Documentaries that Change the Way We Think About Art
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Recognition Through Violence
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Untamable Melodies: Music’s Revolutionary Spirit
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Willie Nelson, America’s Voice in the wake of 9-11
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The Fall to Earth
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