Looking back at the year in lists: From the best thing we read to four movies we’re sure we saw Bob Foster in and six places to screw dangerously

ILLUSTRATION by ROBERT POKORNY
Somewhere between that last slice of pumpkin pie and the final seconds of the ball drop is one of the year’s proudest journalistic traditions: [...]

Start to finish at the march on H8 2008

PHOTO by JONATHAN NAFARRETE
What began with a text message sent from the cell phone of Long Beach resident Tom Crowe on the afternoon of Nov. 6 had by the following evening turned into a gathering of 2,000-plus protesters (gay/straight, old/young, human/canine), a community action so pure in [...]

L.A. had its day. N.Y., Seattle, San Francisco, too. Now America’s metaphorical capital has flown east and landed in the lap of Chicago.
Every nightly news broadcast is stuffed with stock footage of the lakefront skyline. The White Sox talk gleefully about a presidential first pitch. Tokyo dreads the rise of the Windy City’s 2016 Olympic [...]

Obama and Post-Traumatic Black Voter Syndrome

ILLUSTRATION by DANIELA ILLING
So here we are, mere days away from the most important presidential election since at least 1968, when Richard Nixon took the White House with his racially and culturally coded regressive message aimed at a fearful wedge of the white electorate. Our choice in 2008: Shall we [...]

With McCain apparently eager to ask Obama about Ayers at tomorrow’s debate, this news of McCain’s top transition leader seems to be a certain piece of Obama’s response:
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to [...]

The McCain campaign has been making a big deal out of Obama’s use of the phrase “lipstick on a pig,” decrying it as a veiled (and sexist) attack on Sarah Palin. Ah, the Election About Nothing™.
But as always in this internet age, YouTube offers up some pretty strong rebuttal evidence–McCain used the same phrase to [...]

Buried under all the Olympic and Russian news comes this actual web ad from the McCain campaign:

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It was exciting voting for the first time. And my candidate won! Now the war would end and my friends would come home—it was June 4, 1968.
I’d just moved back from living in the Haight, newly married to the man I met at a Grateful Dead Concert at the Fillmore. I’d just helped my best [...]

The historicism of Obama’s nomination last night (and Clinton’s near victory) is all over the headlines. But at least partially overshadowing Obama’s win is Clinton’s refusal to drop out (so far, anyway). Instead, she asked her supporters to send her comments via HillaryClinton.com on what to do next.
Some of the comments should be heartening for [...]

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