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Voting Is So Last Election: Tales from a past Obama-campaign worker
In 2008, I worked on the Barack Obama Campaign in my hometown Sarasota, Florida. I dove into the sea of red, determined to make…
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35 and Jaded: Reflections on the inevitable
Returning to my small-town home after my first year of college, I was interrogated by friends, family, neighbors and familiar acquaintances. I honed and…
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Snark Attack: In Television, Overkill Is Underrated:
Why “Jumping the Shark” Is Necessary for a TV Show’s Success On the season finale of Southspoitation vampire extravaganza “True Blood” a woman…
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A Word to the Wise: The Steeple Chase
Last evening, a series premiered on HBO called “The Steeple Chase.” It was drawn from memoirs that have surpassed in sales Vegan Cat Cuisine and…
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Women on the job?
The New School has long been an intellectual hub for progressive education for decades. Eleanor Roosevelt, Ani DiFranco, and Donna Karen are just a…
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Reality TV: More Than Just A Guilty Pleasure
As part of my concerted attempt to forge a sophisticated New School persona, I name drop Derrida, pepper my speech with terms like “post-modernism,”…
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