Beijing Basketball Watched By Billions Beijing Basketball Watched By Billions
The most laudable part of the Summer Olympics is that it is one of the few times when the stifling sporting atmosphere in the United States actually opens up its window and...
Aug 11, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Globe Trotting Globe Trotting
International volunteer organizations may do a lot of good, but they also have problems that need to be addressed.
Aug 11, 2008 / The Nation
Bush & Kissinger Invade Beijing Bush & Kissinger Invade Beijing
Remember Nero fiddling while the world burns? Nero's got nothing onGeorge W Bush. Hell, at least Nero was displaying a demonstrative skill.No, while Russia shells the Georg...
Aug 10, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pressured by progressive activists who objected to th...
Aug 10, 2008 / John Nichols
Good-Bye, John Edwards Good-Bye, John Edwards
So now we know. John Edwards did have sex with that woman, Rielle Hunter, just as the National Enquirer said. So much for all those jokes about Bat Boy and Hillary's alien baby...
Aug 9, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
Beijing Opening: Show Goes On Without Spielberg Beijing Opening: Show Goes On Without Spielberg
On this morning, the day after the spectacular, pyrotechnic launchof the Olympic games, lets take a second to recall who wasexcluded from the party. No not George W. Bush o...
Aug 9, 2008 / Dave Zirin
Platform Fight: What About Guaranteed Health Care for All? Platform Fight: What About Guaranteed Health Care for All?
The Democratic Party's draft platform offers little in the way of a serious promise of health-care reform. The document reads as if it was written by the insurance industry rathe...
Aug 9, 2008 / John Nichols
Getting Georgia’s War On Getting Georgia’s War On
Russia's war in Georgia excites John McCain and the same neocons who led us into earlier disasters.
Obama: McCain Camp Is ‘Proud to Be Ignorant’ Obama: McCain Camp Is ‘Proud to Be Ignorant’
Barack Obama responds to McCain's energy policy smears in no uncertain terms.
Aug 8, 2008 / YouTube
Edwards Lied! Who Cares? Edwards Lied! Who Cares?
Yes, it's a disappointing surprise, especially to fans of his wife Elizabeth, that John Edwards has admitted that the National Enquirer got it right when it reported he'd been hav...
Aug 8, 2008 / Peter Rothberg