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White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook

‘You would look in vain for graphic sex scenes in literature from the Hebrew Bible through Homer and Ovid and up to Les Liasons Dangereuses’

‘The Golden Gate Bridge still stands…’

Fancy Food Diplomacy

‘The dregs, the Kit Kat wrapper, the cigarette butt, the abandoned shoe: Here are your totems in the land of endings.’

‘Across the globe, the literary frame of mind is growing more homogeneous.’

Stick a fork in it

The numbers back up the claims of an economic hit man

“I like great big ole tears,” Ellington said, teasingly, about audience reactions…

The US-Sino Currency Dispute: New Insights from Economics, Politics, and Law

Buddhism, Stateside

‘…with the dawn of Reagan’s bright new morning in America, the notion of art as the way into a redemptive future had withered on the vine.’

Tip to conquer American poetry: ‘Your friends are really just contacts, and you have to think of them that way. If dropping their name isn’t worth anything, you may have to ditch them’

Facebook message from Somalia to America: “Rolling farting leotard”

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Ruins of urban America

James Fallows: America can rise again

‘It’s no longer just fast food restaurants and “democracy” that the United States is exporting – it’s also our anxiety about time.’