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Orange Menaces, Flim Flam Nazis, and Artisanal Despair: Political Coverage at Tropics of Meta

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Storming the Casino: Dawson Barrett on the Rise of Today’s New Resistance Movements

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It Crawled from the College Debate Circuit

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Becoming Legible: Anger, Hope, and Power in the Women’s March of 2017

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Watching the Dark Waters of History Flow on the Armistice Centennial

  • by Jason Tebbe
  • Posted on November 11, 2018

History does not end and it does not stop. Its dark waters flow and can break their banks and drown us in the flood.

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Midnight in Atlanta: Thinking about the Catastrophe Two Years Later

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on November 2, 2018November 3, 2018

No real best-of this week.  Instead, we at Tropics of Meta are taking stock of…

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This Week’s Best Of: Dolly, Durban, Rent Control and Gay Symbiote Slash Fic

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  • Posted on October 26, 2018October 26, 2018

The student: Since the beginning of time, man has reached for greater heights. The talking…

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Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

  • by timothylombardo
  • Posted on October 16, 2018October 23, 2018

In this excerpt from his book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics (University…

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I Was Raised on Government Brie! Hockey Masks, Depression, and Why No One Can Afford to Go to College (or Not to)

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  • Posted on October 12, 2018

Our first week in a post-Anthony Kennedy America was about as bad as one would…

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Money for Nothing & Your Clicks for Free: Catherine Fisk on the History of Writers and Organized Labor

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on October 8, 2018October 8, 2018

Many Americans might assume that copyright is a simple equation: someone creates a work, and…

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Blasey Ford and the Baying Pack at the Door

  • by Alex Sayf Cummings
  • Posted on October 4, 2018October 4, 2018

The horrifying Kavanaugh saga seems to be hurtling toward its inevitable conclusion: an emotionally unstable…

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I Believe Christine Blasey Ford

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on September 28, 2018October 12, 2018

I believe Dr. Ford because I have lived her pain, and have felt similarly “derailed” by the abuse of another. I understand intrinsically why she did not initially report her assault as a teenager.

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