Tag Archives: sarah jaffe

Racism at Philadelphia pool is just the tip of the iceberg

I want to deny that this could happen in Philadelphia, but I can't. I've seen it too many times with my own eyes.
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Pop and populism: Michael Jackson, Barack Obama and the leftist’s dilemma

It is no accident that the last real pop superstar, Michael Jackson, hit the apex of his popularity in the Reagan years.
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Sarah Palin Just Resigned: Why?

She'll have to win over Americans who didn't buy into “drill, baby, drill” as an energy policy and weren't won over already by folksy comments about her kids.
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Don’t cry for Mark Sanford, take a stand for privacy instead

I don't want electoral victory or anything else to rest on the sex lives of politicians.
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Loving a Man in Uniform: Lily Burana as army wife

"If I wanted to join the military and climb the ladder to a high rank, or to run for public office, I'd pretty much be screwed."
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Iran Protests: It’s not about Twitter, it’s not about us

It's easy for Americans to believe that an election could be stolen in Iran, but next to impossible for most of us to believe that it could be stolen in our own country.
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Holocaust Museum shooting and political posturing

We have a culture, especially in the Obama years, in which a radical fringe feels newly disempowered, and acts of terrorism like this are perpetrated by people who feel threatened.
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No common sense, no pleasure: From Dr. Tiller to “The Pill Kills”

We argue for the Pill by noting its possible benefits, not by arguing that we have a right to have sex as fundamental as that of any man watching Viagra or Cialis ads.
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Sonia Sotomayor: a breath of fresh air

There will be more hints that Sotomayor isn't that smart, that she isn't qualified, that there's some white guy out there being oppressed by the fact that Obama's chosen a Latina.
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Life, Inc.: an interview with Douglas Rushkoff

"I'm trying to show people that I'm not asking them to live an ascetic life of renunciation and denial, but actually a much more abundant life of fun and pleasure."
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