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BY MICHAEL TOMASKY, THE DAILY BEAST, August 11, 2012 -- Paul Ryan? Really? It’s a stunning choice. A terrible one too. By making it, Mitt Romney tells America that he is not his own man and hasn’t eve

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW, August 9, 2012 -- Early voting in Ohio is now operating like this--extended hours in Republican leaning counties, limited hours in Democratic leaning counties. How can th

THINK PROGRESS, August 10, 2012 -- The group of Catholic nuns who launched the Nuns On A Bus tour to shed light on the effects the House Republican budget would have on the poor turned its attention t

THINK PROGRESS, August 10, 2012 -- Ohio has introduced a new tactic in their broader attempts to make it even harder for Democratic voters to get to the polls this year. Early voting stations in Ohio’

HUFFINGTON POST, August 9, 2012-- The Franciscan Action Network (FAN), a Catholic faith-based advocacy and civic engagement organization, is strongly criticizing Mitt Romney's recent ads and rhetoric

HUFFINGTON POST, August 8, 2012 -- Fox News host Alisyn Camerota defended a segment she hosted last week that questioned if Team USA's uniforms were patriotic enough. Following Gabby Douglas' gold

COMEDY CENTRAL, August 9, 2012 -- Anyone tuning into Fox News these past few months has probably noticed a growing trend in what they're covering: voter fraud. They've even gone so far as to instate a

CNN, August 7, 2012 -- Partisan legal showdowns in battleground states over a spate of new voting laws could turn the 2012 elections into a repeat of the 2000 presidential vote recount saga, political

CNN, August 3, 2012 -- A horse is a horse, of course, of course. That is, of course, unless that dancing horse belongs to the famous Romney family. Rafalca, the dressage horse co-owned by Ann Romne

CNN, August 4, 2012 --In the end, Gabby Douglas' massive gamble paid off. Like many young girls, she sat glued to the TV during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, mesmerized by the dazzling gymnasts flipping

HUFFINGTON POST, August 4, 2012 -- As Serena Williams stood atop the medal podium, her career Golden Slam complete thanks to an Olympic rout, the gusty wind on Centre Court blew the U.S. flag off its

HUFFINGTON POST, August 4, 2012 -- Sixteen year old Gabby Douglas, won the gold medal in today's women's gymnastics individual all-around. Like many of the parents we've watched during these Olympic g

HUFFINGTON POST, August 3, 2012 -- Before this week's gold-winning performance by the U.S. women's team, only one African-American female had ever earned an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics -- Dominiq

NEW YORK TIMES, August 3, 2012 — To become the Olympic champion in the individual all-around event, Gabby Douglas first had to leave everything she knew best. She had to pack up her bedroom in Virg

NEW YORK TIMES, August 2, 2012 — At the Olympics, there have been doping scandals, bribery scandals and officiating scandals, many of them fully emerging only years after the fact. The latest Olym

HARDBALL, July 31, 2012 -- Mitt Romney's overseas diplomacy became butt of jokes. Jon Stewart: "Our own Mitt Romney headed for London and the Olympics. Mr. Romney is Mr. Olympics, having saved t

THE GRIO, July 31, 2012 — The Americans lived up to their considerable hype Tuesday, routing Russia and everybody else on the way to their first Olympic women’s team gymnastics title since 1996. Th

TALKING POINTS MEMO, July 31, 2012 -- Stephen Colbert has been a “lifelong” fan of dressage, or “horse ballet,” since about a month ago when he learned that Ann Romney has a horse competing in the Lon

NEW YORK TIMES, July 31, 2012 — For decades many African-Americans have voiced conflicted feelings about Disney. Many fault this entertainment colossus for being slow to introduce a black princess

NEW YORK TIMES, July 31, 2012 — After doctors removed three tumors from her abdomen, Seimone Augustus watched as they placed the largest on a table, next to a ruler, which looked tiny in comparison. T

CNN, July 26, 2012 -- Paulette Beale shakes her head at the suggestion, then flashes a contagious smile. "It's still history," she says, to rebut the notion there could be less intensity for Presid

NEW YORK TIMES, July 30, 2012 — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not

HUFFINGTON POST, July 26, 2012 -- Kameron Slade-- the Queens fifth grader initially prohibited from delivering a pro-gay marriage speech at his school before the INTERNET heard about it-- adorably red

POLITIFACT, July 21, 2012 -- In the wake of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., Americans took to social media to express their views on guns and violence. A reader sent us one Facebook post abou