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  Nadya Suleman: Drag Mom and/or Social Menace

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  Ronald Becker Miami University

  March 11, 2009

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  Note Although so much has already been said about Nadya Suleman in the popular press (and I’m sure ... clear, I’m not troubled by her “irresponsible” decision to implant 6 embryos at a time when she was ... (I’m not saying that that wasn’t irresponsible, just that I’m not all that troubled by it.) I suppose ...
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  Voting for Super Bullshit on Super Tuesday

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  February 05, 2008

  button is still on. Here, though, and especially on a day such as today, I’m interested in how this clip ...
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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

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  overall media climate where the possibility of politics to produce meaningful, systemic change is a joke. ... limiting the possibility of politics, both The Daily Show and the media it ridicules contribute to ...
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  Southern Reconstruction: On Killer Mike’s ‘Reagan’

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  Charles P. Linscott Ohio University

  September 03, 2014

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  America, Mike spits his last line: “I’m glad Reagan dead.” But, while Reagan the man is dead, his ...
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  The Price of Politics

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  Adam Cottrel Georgia State University

  December 09, 2013

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  endurance to animate new physiological possibilities through a body stressed from a greater complexity of ... is to hold both possibilities in a productive tension. The pain and sacrifice of training is vicious, ...
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  I have an Army/We have a Hulk: Thinking Politics in The Avengers

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  john a. sweeney University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept. of Political Science

  May 09, 2012

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  conditions of possibility for politics in our historical moment, specifically as bodies subject to the ... possibility for politics yoked to presencing a mutative capacity? Is there an inherent horror to politics? ...
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  Love, Care, and Comrades

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  Zach Campbell Northwestern University

  April 01, 2015

  3 comments

  Love, Care, and Comrades radical politics politics love cats care Curator's Note In the conversational book In Praise of Love, Alain Badiou wonders, “what on earth is “fraternity”? No doubt it is related to the issue of differences, of their friendly ...
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  Post Truth, or the Cultural Logic of Late Racism

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  Robert Mejia North Dakota State University

  January 29, 2017

  1 comment

  Post Truth, or the Cultural Logic of Late Racism whiteness racism Post Truth politics Critical Race Theory Curator's Note The concept of the “post truth” operates as an alibi that betrays the fact that the phenomenon had minimal impact on voters of c ...
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  Women, Power and Political Influence in Scandal

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  Rossend Sanchez-Baro Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  May 07, 2013

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  Rhimes transfers her own personal situation to the possible world of the series: that of a female ...
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  Two Words: Chuck Norris

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  Ian Reilly University of Guelph

  January 16, 2008

  5 comments

  strategy. Riding the wave of popularity made possible by chucknorrisfacts.com, an ever-growing archive of ...

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