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Alyssa Rosenberg is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. She is the pop culture blogger for ThinkProgress, where she writes about the intersection of politics and culture at thinkprogress.org/alyssa. More
Alyssa Rosenberg is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. She is the pop culture blogger for ThinkProgress, where she writes about the intersection of politics and culture at http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa.
Alyssa is also a columnist for the Washington Monthly and The Loop 21. Her career as a critic began at 8, when she began a children's book review column for her local paper, taking payments in gift certificates to the neighborhood bookstore. Since then, her interests have expanded to include Atlanta hip-hop, procedural television shows, and action movies she watches without any sense of irony whatsoever. Her writing on culture has appearedin Esquire.com, The Daily, The Daily Beast and the American Prospect, and she has written about politics and the executive branch for Government Executive, The New Republic and National Journal.
Dave Weigel's unfortunate departure from the Washington Post, and the furious, revealing, and I think healthy debate about the future of journalism that's followed it lead me to pick up Ender's Game again over the weekend. For anyone not familiar with Orson Scott Card's 1985 novel, it's the story both of a boy trained to fight an alien invasion at a singularly vicious military academy, and of his two siblings who are left behind on Earth. It's also an eerily… More »
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