Sex-Testing Victim Semenya Stands Tall Sex-Testing Victim Semenya Stands Tall
The ongoing obsession in the West over Caster Semenya's gender only serves to highlight the understanding and acceptance shown her in South Africa.
Aug 26, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin
Puzzle No. 3182 Puzzle No. 3182
ACROSS
1 Bring back some pictures, being well equipped to be crossed this way. (9)
Aug 26, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis
GI Joe, Post-American Hero GI Joe, Post-American Hero
Why is it that GI Joe--like all action figures in all action movies of this moment--has left the all-American battlefield for outer, or future or alternate space?
Aug 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Will Drones Make General Atomics the next Blackwater? Will Drones Make General Atomics the next Blackwater?
A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The targets were militants, said the US military. The victims i...
Aug 26, 2009 / Laura Flanders
“The Senator Edward M. Kennedy Health Care Reform Act of 2009” “The Senator Edward M. Kennedy Health Care Reform Act of 2009”
Ted Kennedy led an epic life that defined American politics and policy-making across much of the latter half of the 20th century. Indeed, Kennedy was so much a part of our public ...
Aug 26, 2009 / John Nichols
Kennedy’s Passion for Healthcare Reform Kennedy’s Passion for Healthcare Reform
In this moving April 2008 speech, Sen. Ted Kennedy explains why providing healthcare coverage for all Americans is the 'cause of his life.'
Aug 26, 2009 / YouTube
GOP’s Healthcare Message Malfunction GOP’s Healthcare Message Malfunction
The Nation's Chris Hayes says Republicans want to kill healthcare reform, not put forth any credible alternatives, so their arguments are a 'logical mess.'
Aug 26, 2009 / Countdown
Afghanistan Apocalypse Afghanistan Apocalypse
Yesterday afternoon at the Brookings Institution, four analysts portrayed a bleak and terrifying vision of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan in the wake of the president...
Aug 26, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss