Elizabeth Warren in Two Minutes
Reasons I want to move back to Massachusetts: 1. It’d be nice to see my family more often. 2. I want to vote for Elizabeth Warren for Senate. She’s currently on her talking tour around the state...
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1. LOUIE: My fictional love affair with Louis CK continues with this AV Club interview about his fan-friendly ticketing system, comedy innovation, etc. 2. GENDER: Another good, complex piece from the...
View ArticleSix Sides of “Identity”
It’s Chicago Ideas Week here in the Windy City, which means our fair and not-yet-frigid town is full of who’s whos and big wigs. We’ve got mayors and dignitaries, writers, artists, poets, scientists,...
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The system isn’t perfect, but it’s what we’ve got and it’s better than what most people in the world have. Can you imagine if we lived in a place where one candidate won and the other dude was like,...
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1. GIFTS: After Romney’s post-election definition-of-a-sore-loser quotes about the “gifts” the President gave young people and minorities (Did you know you can buy a 24-year-old’s vote for a couple of...
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1. GENDER: Watch this Time interview with Casey Legler, a woman who works as a male model, and try not to drool. 2. BOOKS: A new anthology, My Ideal Bookshelf, creates colorful portraits of authors’...
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1. WRITING: Man, If only our shared first name meant I shared talent with Emily Rapp (Ditto Emily Nussbaum, Emily McCombs). In this essay for The Rumpus, Rapp writes about finding intimacy while her...
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