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What Fires Young Progressives’ Activism? A New Study Asks Them
While they have many critiques of themselves and others, our participants exhibited an optimism and steadfastness that made me feel the same.
Messing With Our Minds: The Ever Finer Line Between News and Advertising
Almost every nation needs a controlled mainstream media if it is to regulate and influence its citizenry. By way of the mainstream media, a controlling authority is able to …
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How the US Press Lost Its Way
People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media …
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Facebook Unfriends Uncle Sam: Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan to Avoid Taxes
The right-wing has been lauding Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin for his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship in order to avoid taxes. But he isn’t the only one who’s …
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Bully Politics
You think Romney was a jerk in 1965? Look at the guy now. Romney’s days as a gay-bashing high school bully, back in 1965, have been making headlines this …
Public Art ATL: Elevate Underground Present “Harriet Rising”
On display on the Alabama Street above Underground Atlanta, is a public art installation by artists Lisa Tuttle and Alice Lovelace. It’s a three-dimensional, multifaceted grouping of polyptych towers …
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A Mother’s Day Manifesto: Promoting Personal and Communal Responsibility
Some time ago a woman invented Mother’s Day. Julia Ward Howe. She called on mothers to raise their sons well, to not be tools for war, as she …
What Kind of Society Do Americans Want?
Part I – Health Care in the USA On 7 May 2012 a new study came out on healthcare in the United States. Based on research carried out by …
Women Artists Still Face Discrimination
Twenty-seven years ago, the Guerrilla Girls - an anonymous group of artists who use humor to illustrate gender inequities in the art world - surveyed the most influential galleries …
Remembering Maurice Sendak
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died yesterday at the age of 83. Sendak has been called the Picasso of children’s literature, and godfather to generations of readers. His landmark book, Where the …