Barack Obama

Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee post

Many of the "War on Terror" policies he spent years condemning were ones expressly embraced by Obama.
Glenn Greenwald
Video Games

Loved to bytes

A man marries his dream girl, who lives inside a Japanese video game Video
Tracy Clark-Flory
Healthcare Reform

Maybe health reform bill isn't too long after all

Republicans have made a big deal out of the length of Democrats' legislation, but there's some perspective missing
Alex Koppelman
The Road

"The Road": Post-apocalypse now

Director John Hillcoat and his star, Viggo Mortensen, improve on the mannered machismo of Cormac McCarthy's novel
Stephanie Zacharek
Keith Olbermann

Olbermann gets hypocritical on Beck, Grayson

MSNBC host goes after a rival for a sexist comment, but fetes a friendly congressman
Alex Koppelman
Women writers

Sure, it's violent, but can you dance to it?

A British scholar examines abuse narratives in pop music
Kate Harding
Sarah Palin

Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties

The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows
Gene Lyons
Thanksgiving

An immigrant Thanksgiving

Growing up with the stigma of a turkey-averse people
Francis Lam
Barack Obama

I'm thankful I'm not President Obama

Backers deride Katrina-style negligence, haters hate him more each day. Can this presidency be saved? Of course
Joan Walsh

Tom the Dancing Bug

A lady from the East and a half-breed ripsnorter from Colorado duke it out at the Oklahoma roundup
Ruben Bolling
Broadsheet

Loved to bytes

A man marries his dream girl, who lives inside a Japanese video game Video
The GigaOm Network

Desert Bus For Hope Rides Again for the Third Year

War Room

Maybe healthcare reform bill isn't too long after all

Republicans have made a big deal out of the length of Democrats' legislation, but there's some perspective missing
Glenn Greenwald

Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed

As usual, right-wing pseudo-warriors are drowning in extreme cowardice. Video
Joan Walsh

I'm thankful I'm not President Obama

Backers deride Katrina-style negligence, haters hate him more each day. Can this presidency be saved? Of course
How the World Works

The wrong response to ClimateGate

Whining about malicious invasions of privacy won't cut it in the war over global warming science
Beyond the Multiplex

Werner Herzog among the demented iguanas

The legendary German eccentric on his most American film, the dirty, profane, dazzling non-remake "Bad Lieutenant"

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