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TELEVISION | Brit detectives solve murders on Caribbean island in ‘Death in Paradise’
Ben Miller, Kris Marshall, and Ardol O’Hanlon change out as top cops in excellent tropical killer series. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | April 8, 2018 [In his Rag Blog column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, British Television, Criticism, Rag Bloggers, Television
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The Census weapon
The Electoral College is the smoking gun for a rigged system in presidential politics. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 7, 2018 See ‘Notes From a Dying Age’ Verse by Alice Embree, Below. The Trump administration wants … Continue reading
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Your money and your life: The politics of
VA medical care
Paleoconservatives have a long-range plan to destroy Medicare and Medicaid without attacking them directly. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2018 Editor’s Note: The Rag Blog published Steve Russell’s article, “Your Money and Your Life,” on … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Paleoconservatives, Rag Bloggers, Socialized Medicine, Steve Russell, Veterans Administration
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Thousands of students protest gun violence
California students carried signs like, ‘I should be writing my term paper instead of my will.’ By Shepherd Bliss | The Rag Blog | March 15, 2018 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Driving through small-town Sebastopol on March 14 toward the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gun Laws, High School Walk-Outs, Rag Bloggers, School Shootings, Shepherd Bliss, Student Activism
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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Bill Minutaglio, Alice Embree, James Cole & Nicole Stasek, Harry Targ, Bruce Melton, Roy Casagranda & Glenn Smith, Alex Coke, Spencer Perskin & Shawn Siegel, and Lee Carter
Our guests include the author of a cool new book about Timothy Leary, health justice and climate change activists, a Virginia Democratic Socialist, an acclaimed jazz musician, and classic Austin rockers. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | … Continue reading
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FILM | Alan Waldman’s 20 favorite movies seen in 2017
Plus his pick of TV shows, American & foreign, best stand-up specials, and, gulp, porn stars! By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | February 6, 2018 The year 2017 was a pretty good one for movies. Half of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, Best Films of 2017, Criticism, Film, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers, Television
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INTERVIEW | Are those typewriters still smoking?
Jonah interviews John Campbell McMillan, author of ‘Smoking Typewriters,’ the definitive work on the ’60s underground press. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 5, 2018 An associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Interview, John McMillian, Jonah Raskin, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Smoking Typewriters, The Rag, Underground Press
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Feedbacks kick in: 2017 is second warmest without El Niño influence
‘Recent observations strongly suggest that climate change may soon push some systems past tipping points, with global implications.’ By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | February 1, 2018 Listen to the podcast of Thorne Dreyer’s January 11, 2018 Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers
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1968: A personal retrospective 50 years later
It both challenged and strengthened my desire to make this a better world, and it caused me to wonder if a better world was even possible. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | January 31, 2018 There was … Continue reading
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2017: Peña Nieto’s swan song
“Mexico’s crisis manifests as violence, but it is rooted in the corruption and weakness of the state.” — Max Fisher, Amanda Taub, and Dalia Martínez, 2018 By Philip L. Russell | The Rag Blog | January 30, 2018 Philip Russell … Continue reading
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Tagged Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexican Politics, Mexico, Peña Nieto Series, Philip L. Russell, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers
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Calculating our losses: Hugh Masekela, Rosie the Riveter, Ursula K. Le Guin
Some days, everything you need to know from the newspaper is in the obituaries. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 27, 2018 Some days, everything you need to know from the newspaper is in the obituaries. So … Continue reading
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Tagged Hugh Masekela, Obituaries, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers, Rosie the Riveter, Steve Russell, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Report from the weeds: My struggles with the pharmaceutical pusherman
I see myself in some virtual Kafka novel. By Anne Lewis | The Rag Blog | January 18, 2018 January 10 4:53 p.m. Today I found myself suddenly unable to afford Jim’s basic medications. Rasagiline went from $24.38 to $716.00 … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lewis, Drug Prices, Health Care, Medical Bureaucracy, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, Rag Bloggers
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