Geoff Rips
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Walking the Walk
Somewhere near the intersection of the practice of democracy and the money-logged electoral politics of a flagging empire, the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation network [...] Full Story -
Editorial
The first week in October found the Republican message peppered with not-very-subtle code meant to enliven the racist vote. Sarah Palin told us that [...] Full Story -
Editorial
Economic levees have burst. The water’s pouring in, and we’re being herded toward the Superdome, where we’ll be asked to sacrifice while lords of [...] Full Story -
Editorial
Apparently, John McCain won’t let Sarah Palin out of his sight. They’re together everywhere you look. That short leash will make campaigning in all [...] Full Story -
Editorial
In this issue, we observe the 100th birthday of Lyndon Johnson with a memoir by Observer founding editor Ronnie Dugger about the personal and [...] Full Story
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The Miracle of la Soledad
The following excerpt is from The Truth, a novel to be published this month by New Issues Poetry & Prose. It is written in [...] Full Story -
Afterword
1. When the world is right, when the music of the planets sets up a certain vibration, when the raucous strings of cicadas reach [...] Full Story -
Out of Darkness
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For Whom the Phone Rings
Overcoming the Abuse of Rank I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I [...] Full Story -
In Memoriam
Maury was the only person I’ve ever known who made being cantankerous a virtue. Maury looked at the world from an oblique angle. You [...] Full Story
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