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From Apocalypse to Disaster, America Is Obsessed with the Prospect of Bad News

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. Posted August 31, 2007.


Author of the new book The Culture of Calamity, Kevin Rozario explains why we are so fond of a good crisis.
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Onnesha Roychoudhuri is a San Francisco-based freelance writer. A former assistant editor for AlterNet.org, she has written for AlterNet, The American Prospect, MotherJones.com, In These Times, Huffington Post, Truthdig, PopMatters, and Women's eNews.

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