Obama delivers speech defending his, McCain's patriotism. Obama appeals to faith-based groups, wants to expand funding, supports their ability to hire based on religion. Sex in the Warner toons was more likely to be transgressive and connected to deception, especially cross-dressing. Billy Collins on Surrealism and
Twelve things America's next president can do on day one to improve America's standing. Clark: Getting shot down in a plane doesn't make McCain qualified to be president. Measuring the appeal of New York's new "Waterfalls" in terms of web
Fascinating, frightening report on al Qaeda's rebirth in Pakistan. In the course of the election campaigns of recent years, he's been arrested 32 times. After the election, Zimbabwe counts victims. Mugabe joins African Union summit; Tsvangirai: "He wants to keep power for himself until he
Neo-conservatives "apoplectic" over Condoleezza Rice's emerging North Korea deal. There's a guy running for president who knows who Jay-Z is. What's on Obama's iPod? People holding degrees from Harvard or Yale...constitute 83 percent of the presidential nominees
Citizens of voting age without an inked finger...will be regarded as traitors and subject to reprisals. It's election day in Zimbabwe. Interviews with former Mugabe henchmen reveal young men motivated by the fear that they'll be the next victim. Supreme Court rules rifle and pistol
"The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass...in a horror version of Weekend With Bernie, handcuffed to a corpse." Republicans endorse Obama. On the incredibly intricate wiretapping legislation that passed today, and why it's worse than you think. Nicaraguan leftists fight to reclaim the sombrero
Supreme Court rules that the line of execution drops somewhere between treason and child rape. Also yesterday, the Court ended two decades of litigation, deciding Exxon owes $500 million--of what was once $5 billion--for the Valdez spill. Pending the verification of nuclear documents, the U.S. is set
"We cannot allow politics to affect the cheetahs." U.N. joins Iran in efforts to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah. An interactive map of where journalists were killed in 2008. City noise isn't just making us anxious, it's literally killing us. Blogger questioned by
Citing continued killings, U.S. heads off Friday's runoff election in Zimbabwe, says it won't recognize the outcome. Mugabe officials informs citizens ballots will have serial numbers--so they'll know who to kill for voting incorrectly. Justice Dept. officials slammed for investigating intern applicants,
Violence in Iraq at its lowest level since 2004, mainly due to increase in trained Iraqi troops. Haiti battles violent reputation to improve tourism. Reporters complain networks no longer want war on the airwaves. Bush "quite pleased" with U.N.'s condemnation of Zimbabwe; London Times says
