Sex and Violence Sex and Violence
This Week: Things get all twisty as Kang makes some moves her own damn self, and her slacker brother contemplates the Big Wave.
Aug 25, 2008 / Feature / Gary Phillips
Olympics Wrap-Up: Marco Polo Would Be Proud Olympics Wrap-Up: Marco Polo Would Be Proud
Not since Marco Polo has anyone traveled so far up China's Silk Roadwith such amoral élan. But there was Jacques Rogge, president of theIOC, knight of the court of ...
Aug 25, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Joe Biden and the Myth of Foreign Policy Experience Joe Biden and the Myth of Foreign Policy Experience
The conventional wisdom is that with a new cold war looming and global conflicts upon us, Barack Obama needed a Vice-President with foreign policy experience. Most establishment ...
Aug 24, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Tailgating with the Dems in Denver Tailgating with the Dems in Denver
Sometimes tailgating is even better than the game. The Democratic National Convention starts Monday, but thousands of delegates, activists, operatives, protesters and members of th...
Aug 24, 2008 / Ari Melber
Moving Democrats Toward a Progressive Future Moving Democrats Toward a Progressive Future
Democratic National Conventions have come a long way since the last time the party's delegates met in Denver. In 1908, when the party met in this western city, African-Americans s...
Aug 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Don’t Listen to the Nay Sayers Listen to the Now Sayers Don’t Listen to the Nay Sayers Listen to the Now Sayers
It's 6 am in Denver and the sky's beginning to light up. An anti-war march starts in a few hours. The kick off event -- Live From Main Street Denver -- takes place at the Big Tent...
Aug 24, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Denver: The Unofficial Guide Denver: The Unofficial Guide
This post will be continously updated during DNC week. While the Democrats, the Obama campaign and the attendant corporate sponsors pull out all the stops for this week's histori...
Aug 24, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Overlooked and Unappreciated in Beijing Overlooked and Unappreciated in Beijing
If a dynasty isn't noticed, can it really dominate? Lisa Leslie doesn't think so. Leslie just won her fourth consecutive gold medal at her fourthconsecutive Olympics--an un...
Aug 24, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Biden’s Kitchen-Table Populism Biden’s Kitchen-Table Populism
Barack Obama stumbled at one point in his introduction of his vice presidential pick, telling the crowd in Springfield that he had come to "introduce you to the next President…t...
Aug 23, 2008 / John Nichols
On Iraq, Biden Is Worse than McCain On Iraq, Biden Is Worse than McCain
Barack Obama may be doing the one thing that might have seemed impossible: he's picking a running mate whose ideas about Iraq are even worse than, and stupider than, John McCain's...
Aug 23, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss