Aug 29th, 2008 · Barack Obama has accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president. His acceptance speech Thursday night fired hard at his rival, John McCain. Portraying a McCain administration as a continuation of the current Bush White House, Obama said, "On Nov. 4, we must stand up and say: 'Eight is enough.' " Obama also said he welcomes a debate with McCain over who has the best temperament and judgment to be president.
Aug 22nd, 2008 · Denver is debating how it wants to be portrayed as thousands of journalists and delegates arrive for the Democratic National Convention. But Denverites are split over whether to play up the city's folksy western reputation or its emergence as a cultured city.
Aug 21st, 2008 · The ongoing conflict in Georgia's South Ossetia has killed an unknown number of the region's citizens, and left thousands displaced. Many Russians believe that American media has unfairly portrayed their nation as a villain in the conflict. Olga Ivanova, a graduate student from Russia, discusses her recent Washington Post editorial explaining a different perspective.
Aug 2nd, 2008 · Scott Simon talks to film critic Desson Thomson about movie archetypes and how they're portrayed in two very different films: the latest Batman flick, The Dark Knight, and American Teen, a documentary about teenagers and the roles they play, or try to escape, in their small-town high school.
Jul 14th, 2008 · Barack Obama has been portrayed as an outsider candidate — an idealist not mired in the political game. But Ryan Lizza says that a look at Obama's political history in Chicago might offer a different view of the candidate. Lizza is the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, and has been tracking the Obama campaign.
May 31st, 2008 · Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo edited and contributed to a new volume called A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice. He says the book that he and his five fellow writers thought would be about loss and grief turned into something very different.
May 2nd, 2008 · Ten years ago, the French novelist Michel Houellebecq published a book called Atomised. He portrayed his mother as an egocentric hippie who neglected her kids. Now, at age 83, his mother has published her own book. She writes that if her son uses her name again, she'll knock out his teeth with her walking stick.
May 1st, 2008 · Although Hillary Clinton has spent much of her adult life living in the White House or a governor's mansion, she is portraying herself as a "normal American" — particularly while campaigning in blue-collar states like Indiana.