Blog Entries by Markus Ziener
The Bush Legacy: Haunted By Mistakes
Americans are just finishing up eight years of George W. Bush. Their judgment of him is reflected in Bush's miserable popularity ratings. What remains of the Bush era?
He's the most unpopular president since Harry Truman. Experts and historians constantly give his policies poor grades. The inheritance he leaves his...
Sarah's World
Posted September 16, 2008 | 02:44 PM (EST)
WASILLA, ALASKA -- Dan Kennedy hops out of his '92 Chevy Blazer, sprints up the grassy hill and points to a marble slab protruding from the ground. "We have Sarah to thank for that," he says. Engraved is a sentence from the American Constitution, a stone's throw away the Stars...
Barack Obama: Forensics on the Southside
Posted July 8, 2008 | 07:32 PM (EST)
He who finds nothing else lands here: Altgeld Gardens, 20 miles south of elegant downtown Chicago, in the middle of the notorious Southside -- a housing project for those who cannot pay more than 50 dollars a month for rent. Altgeld Gardens is grey and dismal -- and dangerous. Every...
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a...
As January 20 grows larger in the window, I've been thinking more often about the...
I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a...
Editor's note: We first posted this in late July, back when...
Rachel Maddow appeared on "The Daily...
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An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
Naturally, Vogue has a few ideas about what Michelle Obama...
Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there...
5 Comments | Posted November 13, 2008 | 06:55 AM (EST)