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Thanatos A Vampire Tale Inspired by True Events “Today’s creepy is tomorrow’s necessity.” –Sean Parker. Just a single prick. That’s all Jane Watson needed. But in recent weeks at Stanford, the young students, delicious and full of blood, had been harder and harder to come by. At first, she had no trouble finding a fix….
Around 7.30pm local time, approximately 1,000 demonstrators clashed with Trump supporters leaving the arena in San Jose where Trump spoke. But earlier in the afternoon, hundreds of protesters, mostly Latino students from nearby colleges and high schools, as well as a large contingent of union members, had gathered peacefully outside the convention center, chanting their…
It was surprising to hear the news last week that right-wing billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been secretly trying to destroy Gawker Media through proxy lawsuits. It was dispiriting, and less surprising, to hear the conversation that followed the revelation. The discussion begins, in most cases, with the premise that Gawker is bad. Even those…
We fiddle, and the republic burns. It’s sickening. Donald Trump, man-child arsonist, is day by day torching the most sacred American values — threatening the welfare of millions, undermining the pillars of our democracy, igniting the ugliest impulses of the society’s id — and we, the media, are covering it like a bemused recap of…
Header art by Fabiola Lara I Censor My Queerness Around My Straight Friends “Oh, I had no idea, you don’t seem queer.” This is the response I have received time after time when I mention my queerness. It’s never uttered with malicious intent and it’s a sentence that’s usually followed by supportive, friendly questions, but…
Illustration: Jim Cooke Tuesday is the California primary, wherein Golden State voters will be asked to pick a replacement for long-beloved and mostly normal outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer. With the primary comes the Official Voter Information Guide and Candidate Statements, which is a perennially fun read, since California primary candidates are among our nation’s weirdest….
Over the weekend, in the midst of the outrage that followed the news of ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s very lenient sentence for multiple felonies, including attempted rape, some wondered why stories of Turner were illustrated with yearbook photos or stills from the video of his trial. The yearbook photo, in particular, was a troublesome illustration….
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This company was built to fail, says Michael Ferro, Tribune Publishing chairman, talking about the turnaround at Tribune. Tribune’s risk strategy. Source: Tribune’s risk strategy
Karl Kautsky was a prominent Marxist philosopher in the time directly after Marx and Engel’s death. He was a harsh critic of Lenin, Trotsky, and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia as being a Dictatorship, and not a genuine representation of Marxist ideals, or a free democratic ownership of social production. Lenin and Trotsky defended themselves…