Not to be glib and hold forth on the obvious and feed blogger stereotypes but, c’mon, this week marks five years of Operation Quagmire, which means there are people whose entire college or high school years have been marked by this war, which has meant death, disfigurement, lies, the politics of fear, and our bungling [...]
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Where’s Hillary’s firebrand female spiritual adviser, dammit? We need to jump-start that other long-neglected national conversation.
Gary Dauphin’s take on Stuff White People Like: “Don’t piss on me and call it rain.” Yeah!
I’m in Cape Town, South Africa, and so I took a tour of Robben Island. The almost barren, oval-shaped land off the coast of the legendary Cape, that one filled with such Good Hope and so many disappointments, was the repository of prisoners for four centuries before it held the likes of Nelson Mandela and [...]
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Missed some of our DNC coverage? We corral every last post for you here, plus a heads-up on forthcoming RNC coverage.
Chapters 2 and 3 of P+P founder Farai Chideya’s book “Trust” now available; mash it up as you please under a Creative Commons license.
Tricia Romano remembers the failed mayoral bid of Mark Green.
Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.
Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.
The P+P crew gives a Cribs-style walk-through of their sick DNC digs.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins gets RZA of the Wu-Tang to open up about the DNC and the election.
Tara Graham breaks down the new documentary “American Teen” and laments why it gets trounced at the box office by a bunny.
Britney, Russell Brand, and the elephant in the room. 




