May 2012
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May 24th
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May 23rd
“The college classroom should be a place where students learn to speak with...”
– Andrew Delbanco on college classrooms as the “best rehearsal spaces we have for democracy” (via newshour)
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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mental_floss on tumblr: Who Said It: @JoseCanseco... →
mentalflossr: Gertrude Stein is emblematic of a literary and artistic era, with the rhythmic cadence of her poetry underlining a naked self-expression. Jose Canseco slugged 462 dingers and is now known on Twitter for his candid insight, bouts of oppressive confidence tempered by poignant disclosures of… You know, sometimes it just feels like the Internet is giving me a big hug.
May 15th
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May 15th
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IsRonPaulStillRunning.tumblr.com →
May 14th
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Yup, this was basically the Prospect office an... →
May 9th
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May 9th
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“Well, I guess I’m cynical. I had a list of reasons as long as my arm for...”
– E.J. Graff, “I Am Gobsmacked”
May 9th
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“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to...”
– The full quote. (via nprfreshair)
May 9th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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“It blossomed into a magazine that honors and invests in long-form journalism,...”
– E.J. Dionne, “The American Prospect, a little journal that looms large”
May 7th
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May 3rd
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April 2012
24 posts
Apr 30th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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“You see, Mitt Romney may not have pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, but...”
– Paul Waldman
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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More Americans believe in witchcraft than agree... →
think-progress: Necessary context.  At least with witches, there’s the small hope that you’re dealing with the Glinda-type. 
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Stat of the Day: 53.6% of Young Graduates Don't... →
Happy Monday y’all.
Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 16th
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Longreads: "My So-Called Ex-Gay Life." →
longreads: What it was like for a teenager to go through “ex-gay” therapy—and how the movements associated with such practices have fallen apart: After our initial meeting, I spoke with Nicolosi weekly by phone for more than three years, from the time I was 14 until I graduated high school. Like a rabbi…
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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“Javerbaum is just kidding around here, but while I am on board with the...”
– Paul Waldman, A Grand Unified Theory of Romney
Apr 2nd
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March 2012
15 posts
Mar 22nd
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Knight News Challenge: DifferentFeather →
newschallenge: 1. What do you propose to do? Build an engaging tool that helps readers discover previously unexplored news items that their “opposite” (politically, demographically, geographically) reads instead of news stories endlessly aggregated across their own narrow social networks. 2. Is anyone doing…
Mar 19th
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Mar 15th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 12th
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