Culture Project

Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, anti-Taliban fighter, dies of cancer at Guantánamo , his case never settled by law, his story either unheard or unbeli...

Obama wins Iowa . A black man becomes president...? Assuming Der Bush doesn't cancel elections.

Police brutality in New Orleans. Please be sure to watch to the end.

But first a lighter fare: Schlock-talker Michael Savage lays into Islam , in a seriously scary way, and doesn't get the Imus routine a...

Powerful, swelling and echoing stuff. I guess "haunting" might be the back-of-the-book-jacket word for the first song. The second...

...reads a poem, shortish, involving a beer. I'll find it (I hope) and post in a sec. Frank Bidart reads "To the Republic," ...

...takes the stage, dressed in black, to read "Pity the Nation." Found a book by that title in addition to the poem. Larson read...

A panel on stage, Allan Buchman chatting up its members. Amy Goodman moderates. She opens by noting that the media is the most powerful t...

...from earlier today, sings with his daughter about Iraq. "It's one, two, three - what are we fighting for? ... Five, six, seve...

Ned Eisenberg reads "Bounden Duty," one of my favorite poems by the maestro of weird, James Tate . Basically, the president asks ...

"I wrote this poem," Daily Show alum Mandvi says, "because I'm afraid of Americans." The poem begins with the imag...

Dunk reads the words of Nero (the first known leader to use a speechwriter) as a woman in a white dress sings and his band plays beautifully...

...gives a rousing call-to-arms regarding impeachment - a perfect way to enter back into the subject. Possibly the best speech of the serie...