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The story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama

It was two weeks before Election Day when Mitt Romney’s political ­director signed a memo that all but ridiculed the notion that the Republican presidential nominee, with his…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4570 words)

Occupy the Rockaways!

Google/NASA/USDA Farm Service Agency The Rockaway Peninsula, New York City, much of which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy at the end of October 2012 I grew up in Belle Harbor, on the western…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 10, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1993 words)

Hidden History: America's Secret Drone War in Africa

An MQ-9 Reaper in Iraq in 2008. Photo: Air Force More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic attacks. Some five years after a U.S. Predator Unmanned Aerial…
AUTHOR:David Axe
PUBLISHED: Aug. 13, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (354 words)

Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Gotham City | Slavoj Žižek on ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

By Slavoj Žižek. Exclusive on Boitempo’s Blog. Para a versão em português, clique aqui. Warning: the following article contains spoilers of The Dark Knight Trilogy. …
PUBLISHED: Aug. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4457 words)

Fussbudget

“If you’re going to criticize, you should propose,” Ryan says of his budget plan.
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (929 words)

How to cook the perfect chicken kiev

Felicity's perfect chicken kiev. Photograph: Felicity Cloake Chicken kiev is a dish so rooted in the psyche of the 1970s that it may surprise some to realise it was quietly oozing butter before…
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1799 words)

Maxim Interrogates the Makers and Stars of The Wire

We speak with the men and women who made one of the best TV shows of all time. Photos Courtesy of HBO | Licensed to Alpha Media Group 2012 Ten years ago this month, The Wire premiered on HBO…
AUTHOR:Marc Spitz
SOURCE:Maxim
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6656 words)

How Chicago house got its groove back

"You're as relevant as your last mix." That's a line for a DJ to live by if ever there were one. And if there were ever a DJ to proclaim it, Carlos Sosa is that DJ. Sosa is better known as DJ Sneak,…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5585 words)

The Outlaw's Guide to Iceland

LENGTH: 31 minutes (7780 words)
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