| October 1 |
- Bateman: George W. Bush on the troubled economy
- "It matters little what path a bill takes to become law. What matters is that we get a law."
- Let's not pity Palin
- Rebecca Traister on the importance of holding the V.P. pick accountable.
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| October 2 |
- Bateman: A detour for the Straight Talk Express?
- More like the Straight Talk Express crashed into a school bus filled with lies and gaffes.
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| October 3 |
- Sarah Palin isn't the problem
- Joan Walsh reminds us that it's time to focus on the man who chose Palin.
- Bateman: Debating Palin
- Our Founding Fathers were ... spinning in their graves when they heard I might become vice president.
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| October 4 |
- HPV vaccine required for immigrants, not citizens
- Tracy Clark-Flory responds to news that the vaccine is required for young women seeking to immigrate to the U.S.
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| October 6 |
- Big Think: Lisa Randall on how some things will be known
- The theoretical physicist discusses her work on understanding extra dimensions of space and string theory.
- Bateman: The V.P. debate, Part 2
- What is Sarah Palin's Achilles' heel?
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| October 7 |
- Bateman: We're not gonna let John McCain distract us
- Or hoodwink you, or bamboozle you, or run the okey-doke on you!
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| October 8 |
- Bateman: "I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends"
- If McCain has known how to get him this whole time, don't you think maybe he should have told Bush and the Army about it?
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| October 9 |
- Bateman: McCain's healthcare fix
- His plan? "Let's do a lot of things!"
- Daytime TV gets political
- Rebecca Traister reflects on a new trend in daytime television.
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| October 10 |
- Mark Chryson packs heat
- Former Alaskan Independence Party chairman Mark Chryson on Sarah Palin, the New World Order and Abraham Lincoln.
- Bateman: Barack Obama on Bill Ayers
- "We've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign."
- A hooker makeover?
- Tracy Clark-Flory responds to a new Dutch plan to curb prostitution.
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| October 11 |
- Dishonor on the campaign trail
- Joan Walsh on the dark tenor of the McCain-Palin campaign.
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| October 13 |
- Bateman: Diddy vs. McCain
- "John McCain scares me even more than Sarah Palin!"
- Big Think: "I hope that we can restore our image"
- Lawyer and author Mahvish Khan discusses her experiences at Guantánamo.
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| October 14 |
- Red State Update: Jackie and Dunlap watch the debate
- At a viewing party in Nashville, watch out for the "B.S. factor."
- Bateman: John McCain defends Barack Obama
- Breaking news: McCain discovers simple politeness.
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| October 15 |
- Bateman: Sarah Palin vs. Troopergate
- "The report has shown that there was no illegal or unethical activity there in my choice to replace our commissioner."
- Tina Fey's cultural impact
- Rebecca Traister reflects on the comedian's political work.
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| October 16 |
- Is McCain's negative campaigning ruining his legacy?
- Joan Walsh takes a look at the GOP candidate's recent attack ads.
- Bateman: The final debate
- "Facts are facts and records are records." Scott Bateman responds to audio from the presidential candidates.
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| October 17 |
- Bateman: The final debate, Part 2
- Hrrmph, women's health.
- Is Trig Palin staying up too late?
- We take a look at the baby past his bedtime.
- The most patriotic citizens?
- We find it hard to believe that John McCain is proud of the people at his rallies, but he said it himself.
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| October 18 |
- Fighting abortion restrictions in Oklahoma
- Tracy Clark-Flory comments on a law that would require women to view ultrasounds before having an abortion.
- George W. Bush's greatest hits
- Stephanie Zacharek and Andrew O'Hehir discuss Oliver Stone's latest film.
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| October 19 |
- Bateman: Powell's Obama endorsement ("Meat Pie Press")
- "I was also concerned at the selection of Gov. Palin."
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| October 20 |
- Big Think: All of our decisions impact somebody else
- Marjora Carter, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, discusses trying to help people reconnect with the natural world.
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| October 21 |
- Bateman: A desperate Pat Buchanan "went there"
- Everybody stop talking all at once, you're making this hard to animate!
- Red State Update: Bill Ayers is a hippie!
- He's not a terrorist. What kind of terrorist has a living room? Osama bin Laden lives in a cave!
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| October 22 |
- Bateman: Sarah Palin sure loves the "real" America
- The V.P. candidate visits the hardworking, patriotic, pro-America areas of this great nation.
- The Wasilla Project: Sarah Palin, fiscal conservative?
- Many of Palin's decisions as mayor cost more than they were worth. A team of filmmakers went to Wasilla to learn more about how the V.P. candidate ran her office.
- When campaign comes second
- Rebecca Traister responds to news that Obama will suspend his campaigning to visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii.
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| October 23 |
- Bateman: Who are the core Palin supporters?
- Meet some scary people who don't get out much, and are easily frightened, from a small Ohio town.
- The Wasilla Project: Sarah Palin as the "first Christian mayor"
- Locals speak about the effect of Palin's religious beliefs on her policies while she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
- A new pro-life, pro-family pharmacy
- Tracy Clark-Flory responds to news of a new anti-birth control pharmacy in Virginia.
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| October 24 |
- Bateman: Barack Obama on the "real America"
- With the challenges we face right now, we can't afford to divide this country ... hell, we can't even afford a thing of Twizzlers.
- "Synecdoche, New York"
- Andrew O'Hehir speaks with director Charlie Kaufman about his latest film, "Synecdoche, New York."
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| October 27 |
- Bateman: Sarah Palin is still yapping about Bill Ayers
- The V.P. candidate tries to define "domestic terrorist."
- Big Think: The political debate
- Big Think surveys the political divide -- and wants to know what your plan is.
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| October 28 |
- Bateman: John McCain on the state of the race
- Remember when we thought McCain told the truth and had honor and dignity and stuff? It seems so long ago now, like a dream ...
- Red State Update: Is Sarah Palin a diva or just a maverick?
- She stuck it to big oil, she stuck it to her own party in Alaska, and now she's gonna stick it to McCain.
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| October 29 |
- Bateman: Christopher Hitchens on Sarah Palin and the fruit fly
- "She thinks genetics is a joke ... she advocates the deliberate, planned, state-financed stultification of American children."
- "Doctor Atomic" and Mr. Adams
- Inside the music and life of renowned American composer John Adams.
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| October 30 |
- Paying for abstinence
- A contest offers cash to engaged couples who avoid having premarital sex.
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| October 31 |
- Postcard from Pennsylvania: Joe Biden in Palin country
- Both V.P. candidates held rallies in Williamsport, Pa. Palin filled a baseball stadium while the candidate most likely to win barely filled a gymnasium.
- Bateman: Palin 2012?
- She won't go down with this ship
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