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November 6, 2015

Bitchslap: A Column About Women and Fighting

by Susan Schorn
June 25, 2015

My Own Private Shock Corridor: A Night in Berkeley

by Bob Schneider
February 18, 2015

Home On the Range: Smiling for the Gun Board

by Robert Lawrence
February 12, 2015

Adventures in Atomic Tourism: We’re Gonna Rock, Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight

by Anne Wheeler
November 17, 2014

Home On the Range: The Taste of Lead

by Robert Lawrence
October 29, 2014

My Own Private Shock Corridor: Form Contra Content

by Bob Schneider
September 24, 2014

My Own Private Shock Corridor: Chance is a Fool’s Name for Fate, Part 4: She Walks into Mine

by Bob Schneider
September 15, 2014

Speaking for All Christians Exactly Like Me: Ten Thousand Zombies in Bonnets

by Jordan Jeffers
September 9, 2014

My Own Private Shock Corridor: Chance is the Fool’s Name for Fate, Parts 2 and 3.

by Bob Schneider
August 15, 2014

The View from Where I Standardize: Ruminations from the Test-Prep Industry: Saying Goodbye

by Melissa Roy

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April 30, 2020

The Girl From Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” Responds 18 Years Later

by Madeleine Trebenski
June 26, 2020

A Message from Your University’s Vice President for Magical Thinking

by Juliana Gray
June 24, 2020

Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far): Atrocities 1-759

by Ben Parker, Stephanie Steinbrecher, Kelsey Ronan, John McMurtrie, Sophia DuRose, Rachel Villa, and Amy Sumerton
June 22, 2020

I’m the Guy Setting Off Fireworks Every Night In Your Neighborhood and I Have You Right Where I Want You

by Ilana Gordon

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July 6, 2020

Discipline-Specific Guidelines for Classroom Social Distancing

by Bethany S. Keenan
July 6, 2020

Signs You’re a Black Character Written By a White Author

by Omolola Sanusi
July 6, 2020

The Dog Whisperer of the ICU

by Christopher Cox
July 6, 2020

So, You Want to Direct a Community Theater Musical Production

by Joanna Mechaley

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