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The Sandtown-Winchester protests in Baltimore
Turning despair to hope
How would the world be different if more of us treated each other as if we were from the same species?
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The integrity of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
In defense of Kimye
Enough with bashing Kanye West and Kim Kardashian — they're living the American dream.
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Mz. Fest production of ‘Shit Men Have Said to Me’
Remind me why it’s your business?
A short play in development about “how men and women communicate” predictably revolves around the quandaries of sexual harassment, but there’s a lot more to this picture.
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Poetry in the end
Poetry isn’t a cure, and it isn’t a miracle. But there are words, phrases, whole poems that — in the grimmest, loneliest, most broken moments of my life — have offered me a tiny lozenge of light.
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'Gett' and 'The Heidi Chronicles'
Women and choices
The choices that women are making — in work, marriage, family, and sexual identity — are both brave and definitive, as shown in today’s film and theater.
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The Five Stages of Tax Preparation
Let's hope that identifying the Five Stages of Tax Preparation will lead to a formal recognition of this problem and a road map for sufferers everywhere.
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On the loss of a brother
Riverside
Kile Smith, at his brother’s house, reflects on a death.
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From the New Deal to Citizens United
Several million dollars for your thoughts
I had been calling Citizens United the worst Supreme Court decision of the past 50 years in its likely social devastation. But perhaps I was mistaken. Maybe Citizens just confirmed what America had already become.
Teaching poetry in the inner city
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
These sixth-graders knew about ducking from danger; they live on tragic turf (sorry, no table for alliterations, either). They go to school in a city whose violent crime rate in 2012 was three times the national average, a place where nearly 30 percent of the residents squat below the poverty line. And when they wrote, their poems blistered with loss.
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Chip Kelly trades Nick Foles
Coach Machiakelly remakes culture in Philadelphia
The Nick Foles trade turned out to be the beginning of the end.
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