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Dead End on Shakin’ Street

To read more great writing from our past issues, click here. My hometown is vibrant. Its status as such is certified, official, stamped on both sides.There was a time, though, when it wasn’t,…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1231 words)

Rachel Maddow's Quiet War

Rachel Maddow Virginia Sherwood/MSNBC "So just who is Sarah Palin?" This is Keith Olbermann talking, back in the summer of 2008, when the Alaska governor is brand-new to the national scene and…
PUBLISHED: June 27, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5537 words)

Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie’s Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line

Returning to Brooklyn—a very different Brooklyn—with Red Hook Summer, the outspoken filmmaker talks with Will Leitch about the timidity of Hollywood, reality-TV minstrelsy, and what…
PUBLISHED: July 8, 2012
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5915 words)

Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?

The founder of Eden Foods, Michael J. Potter, among the organic stock at the Eden headquarters in Clinton, Mich. Michael J. Potter is one of the last little big men left in
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (940 words)

In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture

The following is adapted from the Foreword to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner with Gary…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4526 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
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The spoils of an undeclared war

I didn’t go to La Libertad, Petén, for the fried chicken. I went because of the war. That said, for three nights in a row I sat on the same plastic bar stool looking out over the main…
AUTHOR:Dawn Paley
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2986 words)

A Snitch’s Dilemma

Kathryn Johnston was doing pretty well until the night the police showed up. Ever since her sister died, Johnston, 92, had lived alone in a rough part of Atlanta called the Bluff. A niece checked in…
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2012
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7485 words)

What's 50 Grand to a Revolutionary Like Me?: Watch the Throne and the New Black Power

When Jay-Z and Kanye West released Watch the Throne last year, they did so, at least in part, to glorify things. Thing-glorification is a pursuit with a rich and not wholly invalid history in…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2362 words)
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