All posts by Hortense Spillers
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Here We Go Again!
The U.S. Supreme Court consented on Monday to hear oral argument on the 2010 health care overhaul law. A decision is expected to be handed...
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Berlusconi Steps Down
After seventeen years in office, the colorful Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, resigned in humiliation Saturday, as the Italian Parliament adopted austerity measures for a...
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Laughing Like Cain
Republican presidential hopeful, Herman Cain, keeled over in laughter Friday when a supporter related to him that Professor Anita Hill was trying to reach him....
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"Paterno Is Finished at Penn State, and President Is Out"
In one of the most stunning developments in intercollegiate sports the last few years, legendary football coach, Joe Paterno, was fired Wednesday evening by the...
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Scott Olsen injuries prompt review as Occupy Oakland protests continue
The Occupy Oakland movement took a turn toward violence the past Tuesday night, when members of the Oakland Police Department conducted a predawn raid of...
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Turkey Earthquake: Death toll passes 430
The past Sunday, an earthquake of a 7.2 magnitude hit the Turkish city of Van, located in the southeast region of the country. News sources...
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IS RICK PERRY EMBRACING THE BIRTHER MOVEMENT?
The “birther” canard, which has plagued this White House since President Obama took office, simply doesn’t go away, despite the fact that an authenticated copy...
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Taking It to the Streets
For those of us who are not able to travel to New York City because we are fortunate enough to have jobs and must attend...
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A Message from the Editors Concerning the Execution of Troy Anthony Davis
We join millions of Americans in expressing our profound sorrow tonight that despite recantations and substantial doubt concerning his guilt, the state of Georgia has...
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Fables for Our Time
I should have been grading papers yesterday. In fact, I missed my own assignments, watching coverage that I know nearly as well as the digits...
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Message from The Editors: In Commemoration of 9/11
We wish to express our sincere sympathies for all of the victims of September 11, 2001, now ten years ago. The tragedy of that day...
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Message from The Editors: Submissions
As one of its features of coverage from time to time, TFW is pleased to invite submissions on women subjects–both contemporary and historic–who have made...
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From the Editors on "The Help"
We have been overwhelmed and overjoyed by our readers’ response to Duchess Harris’s article on the novel, The Help. We deeply appreciate the unprecedented number...
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Dial M for Murdoch and Mayhem
The pathways into the Murdoch scandal are so numerous that a single writer knows from the outset of any attempt to address it that his...
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Another Day at the Races
By now, we have grown accustomed to a US Supreme Court that rules in favor of the corporate interest, no matter what its costs might...
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London Diary
It’s a chilly spring weekend in London, although the cold this time of year is not unprecedented, and tourists by the busload descend on Piccadilly...
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Who’s Afraid of Mildred Pierce?
One of the central premises of Betty Friedan’s germinal text, The Feminine Mystique(1963), is that the robust effort to restore American women to their rightful...
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Views on the West Wing (I)
It is fair to say that the Obama Presidency has set my mind awash in currents of confusion: I confess—I don’t know what the man...