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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama made history Thursday night by accepting his party's nomination for the presidency. He's the first black American to hold such a major party nomination. To the cheers of an estimated 84,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field, Obama said America has had "enough" of broken politics and doesn't want John McCain to continue "the failed policies of George W. Bush."

This post is one in an ongoing series of audio postcards intended to document the characters we might consider minor in the larger picture of these…

Obama/McCain Ticket??

Even with many people grappling with when life begins, it is hard to deny that a baby - born live - is a human being. For those who don't know the

The Darker Side of Hope (And the Audacity of 'Our Posterity')

In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe is planning to form a new government without the consent of the main opposition party, the state-owned newspaper reports. The news comes as talks between Mugabe and the opposition leader have stalled.

History was made Wednesday in Denver as a major political party for the first time nominated a black man to be president of the United States. Barack Obama will accept the nomination Thursday at the pary's convention. Early on, his campaign was propelled by his opposition to the Iraq war, but it succeeded for reasons well beyond the war.

Phillip Van's Come Wander with Me is one of the short works playing at this year's alt.pictureshows (Phillip Van)

Who was behind the inflammatory ad that showed Obama wearing a turban? The answer could be the start of a joke: a hypnotherapist, an apolitical wedding videographer, and a felon now on the run. And they still haven't paid for the ad.

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