McCain's Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism
Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics?
Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008
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Fighting Barack Obama
In Denver this week the Democratic nominee laid out a feisty, populist message and pulled his party together.
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McCain's Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism
Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics?
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The dark history of burned flesh
Drop those spareribs, imperialist pig-eaters! A new book argues that the great American barbecue smolders on the coals of genocidal racism
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Critics' Picks
What you need to see, read, do this week: Nazi TV, German robot music and an alternative to warmed-over Coldplay
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Letters of the week
Readers reflect on Sarah Palin, health insurance, birth control and more
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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John McCain's female card
By choosing an X-chromosome cipher, McCain is trying to beat Obama at the identity politics game. But it's dangerous to fight on your opponent's turf
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Quote of the day
Sen. Barbara Boxer on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
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Dobson says he'll vote for McCain-Palin
The prominent evangelical leader has been reticent about supporting John McCain, so his move may signal how happy social conservatives are with the choice
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Sarah Palin and a melting Alaska
Global warming is nothing to joke about in the not-so-frozen North. Palin might be pro-drilling, but she can't ignore climate change
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Who's that lady?
Did McCain just pick a woman to win the Hillary crowd? Members of Salon's Table Talk community weigh in on the female vote
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Palin: A "maverick" move or a nod to the GOP base?
She adds youth -- and inexperience -- to the 72-year-old McCain's ticket, but she is a by-the-book social conservative
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American revolutionary
In his acceptance speech, Barack Obama stood up for Democratic values, took the fight to McCain -- and proved that the United States is still capable of reinventing itself
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Liquoring up the Democrats
Corporations with business pending in Washington spared no expense on Denver parties
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Everyone's favorite mean girl
"Gossip Girl's" Leighton Meester on raging tabloid rumors, faux toplessness and her character's undeniable sex appeal
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Ask the pilot
Who cares what planes look like? I do! Why do they have to look so ugly and boring?
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I married a Nazi -- the comedy
Czech master Jirí Menzel's black comedy about a lovable innocent turned Nazi collaborator is a work of nettlesome genius. Will anybody notice?
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Why I love the city that brutalized me
Before Katrina, all I knew about New Orleans was Bourbon Street clichés. Then I got mugged there and fell for a local boy and the glorious city itself
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Dr. Feelbad
Modern medical practice is burning out doctors. That's bad for our health and yours. We need a cure. But first I need a nap
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WayLay
Jill watches "This Was Your Life"
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Bateman: Biden's bringing the keg
Actual audio from the Democratic convention
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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John Kerry: I learned my lesson in 2004
The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee talks about his blistering attack on John McCain in Wednesday's speech -- and what he should've done differently four years ago
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What's missing from the Democratic convention?
Democrats have largely avoided discussions of the radicalism of the past eight years, and even more so personal attacks on John McCain. Is that wise?
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Biden -- and Kerry and Clinton -- go on the attack
Before Barack Obama's surprise appearance, a tag team of Democrats, including Bill Clinton, piles on John McCain. And Joe Biden, Rove-style, goes right for McCain's supposed strength
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Advice to Obama for his historic speech
Five Democratic wordsmiths offer up their do's and don'ts
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Hail and farewell
Hillary Clinton officially ended her historic campaign with dignity -- and her backers' predicted meltdown never happened
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The road to Wikipedia
How do we know what we know? A new book takes a long view of knowledge, from ancient oral traditions to the rise of universities and the Internet
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Tom the Dancing Bug
Unremarkable Doug's saga continues
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No more purple dinosaurs!
The creators of "Yo Gabba Gabba" tell the story behind the coolest (and least annoying) kids shows on television
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Ain't no wind in T. Boone Pickens' sails
The oil tycoon's support of John McCain for president demonstrates that his heavily advertised plan for wind power is only hot air
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
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What makes Biden Biden?
The moral backbone that led the V.P. nominee to stand up to Milosevic and pass the Violence Against Women Act was bred into him by his father
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"No way, no how, no McCain"
Hillary Clinton targets the Republicans -- and her loyalists who have been unwilling to give up the good fight
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When is a plot not a plot?
A group of armed "meth heads" reportedly discussed shooting Barack Obama, but the feds opted for lesser charges
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We drive as we live
No wonder traffic will never improve. We are doomed by our behavior, as a drive in New York with "Traffic" author Tom Vanderbilt reveals
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Hope floats
She was unforgettable in Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke." Now Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc explains what the storm took away -- and never could
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"Traitor"
Too much narrative trickery takes away from the real talent in this post-9/11 thriller, Don Cheadle and Saïd Taghmaoui
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Rolling with the punches
Californians remind me of Londoners. They're less jittery than the rest of us, and disaster doesn't terrify them
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The K Chronicles
A fair and balanced look at Obama's run for the presidency
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
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Biden's mission
All signs are that Joe Biden won't back away from the job ahead of him -- combat with John McCain
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Isn't she lovely?
In her prime-time speech Monday, Michelle Obama foiled her harshest detractors and perhaps even won over Middle America
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Angry PUMAs on the prowl in Denver
They don't care if they make Chris Matthews happy, or if they make Hillary Clinton look bad. They don't even care that she wants them to stop
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¡Viva Obama!
In Denver, a group of Latino voters show why they may hold the key to power for Democrats in the West
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The souls of young Muslim folk
What it's like to be America's new "problem" in the age of terror
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This Modern World
Tonight: The latest stupid campaign season distraction that we in the media keep talking about!
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