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Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux is a freelance writer and a former writing fellow at the Prospect.
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Daily Meme: To Nugent, or Not to Nugent
Remember Ted Nugent? If the sands of the past year have managed to erase all thoughts of the ageing rocker, gun fanatic, and raging conservative, you’re in for a rude awakening. Nugent is back in the headlines after declaring (at-where else-a gun website) that President Obama was a “chimpanzee” and a “sub-human mongrel.” Well, actually, […]
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Needling for Change
There’s a way to keep drug users from overdosing on heroin. Unfortunately, it’s illegal.
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Daily Meme: A Brief History of Presidential Groveling
Art history majors, relax. The president doesn’t think that you should chuck your books on contemporary color theory and go take a course in carpentry. In late January, Obama told a crowd at a factory in Wisconsin that people could make more money with skills in manufacturing than an art history degree. Yesterday, Obama ate […]
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Daily Meme: Northern Liberal Elites Are the Real Racists
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas indulged in a bit of nostalgia for the glory days of the segregated South, telling a group of Florida college students, “My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school” in segregated Savannah, Georgia. […]
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The Conversation: Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben
Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and McKibben, founder of 350.org, discuss raising awareness about environmental catastrophe.
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Daily Meme: Buy Thin Mints, Support America’s Decline
If there was any group that seemed capable of rising above the culture-wars fray, it’s the Girl Scouts. After all, what could be more American than scrumptious treats,capitalism, and crafting? (The cookies are even gluten free!) Anti-choice organizations say the Girl Scouts have pulled the wool over honest Americans’ eyes for too long. After the […]
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Why Anti-Choicers Can’t Take Credit for the Falling Abortion Rate
A new study shows that birth control is actually responsible.
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What Can Obama Actually Do to Solve Campus Sexual Assault?
A new White House task force is a good start—but only if it listens to students.