Theodore Roosevelt

44 Plays for 44 Presidents is a fast-paced history lesson

Entertaining vignettes about U.S. leaders remind us why it's lonely at the top

America's Petro-Terrorists

Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time

Tim Pawlenty is Haagen-Dazs vanilla to Fox News

Tim Pawlenty and Haagen-Dazs vanilla, the preferred flavor of Fox News.​After almost a half-hour of challenging Tim Pawlenty's voodoo economics on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace echoed Bill O'Reilly and wondered aloud whether Pawlenty was just too nice to be a presidential candidate. Maybe he'd b ... More >>

Sonny Perdue, Joe "You Lie" Wilson join Team Pawlenty

Perdue and Wilson: Happy Republicans in white shirts and blue ties.​While Michele Bachman's chief operative is calling Sarah Palin names, Tim Pawlenty keeps adding GOP marquee names to his roster. In a couple of moves that ought to endear him to southerners, he scooped up former Georgia Gov. ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's no Ronald Reagan, Wall Street Journal says

The Wall Street Journal knows Ronald Reagan, and says Bachmann is no Ronald Reagan.​America's Craziest Congresswoman passes herself off as a constitutional conservative, but the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, a bullwark of real conservative thinking, has lumped her in with a bunch of ot ... More >>

George Will tells Tim Pawlenty to knock off the "dime store Teddy Roosevelt" act

Gadhafi: Best known for slaughtering his own people. Pawlenty: Best known for being Minnesotan.​Tim Pawlenty has the whole Libyan civil war thing dialed. Screw the United Nations and the Arab Spring, it's time to Cowboy Up. "I would tell Gadhafi he's got X number of days to get his affairs in ... More >>

Arsenic and Old Lace

Scorsese's Shutter Island is the good kind of insane

Leondardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo smoke out culprits in a prison of lunatics

Obama fires up supporters in Minneapolis rally

Speaking to a nearly packed Target Center, he gave a more folksy version of his health care reform speech given to the joint session of Congress earlier this week.

Guantanamo's final days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp and Jihad looms

Silver Jews

Stereolab and more

McCain's Moment

A minute-by-minute account of the RNC's POWerful climax

Liveblogging the RNC day 4: John McCain is a POW.

Liveblogging RNC Day 2: Joe Lieberman kills the buzz

Wild West Frontier Fest

Walker On the Green: Artist Designed Miniature Golf

Tim Pawlenty would be a dentist today...

The Rising Stone

The director of 'JFK' was plotting his latest countermyth in 2001

Free Will Astrology

Clear Channel Rules the World

How a small chain of once-struggling radio stations grew into a giant of the media/entertainment complex

Wanted: Someone To Write An Ode to a Urinal

Is there no one in Minnesota who can handle the job?

Your Own Personal Jesus

American history gives a five-minute makeover to the Son of God

And The War Came

Planet America: Our world and welcome to it

The Greatest Shows on Earth

Uzbek beauties! Swedish peaceniks! Iranian mummies! A guide to the high-wire act otherwise known as the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.

Quiz Show

In two new TV game shows, the search for wannabe millionaires reaches the history egghead and the sports nut

Hollywood and Vine

Disney's Tarzan swings for evolution but slouches toward the primitive

Once Upon a Time in the West

Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Jack Crabb, returns to the saddle and the great legends of the frontier

Is He Nuts?

Turncoat. Chickenshit. Radical. Minnesota's senior senator has been called a lot of things. But president?

The Pretenders

You'd think that Clinton's decision amounting to a death sentence for thousands of HIV-positive Americans might generate a public outcry. Instead, the chattering classes were obsessed with Dick Gephardt's speech at Harvard.

Horse-Trading

The squabble between Jesse Helms and William Weld over the latter's confirmation as ambassador to Mexico has more to do with personal pique than ideology.

Bank Jobs

Theme: "The Greatest Environmental President." Really?

Freedom's Failure: Aliens Abduct Newt!

The Republicans' Secret Greenwash