BEIJING — Chinese authorities have not approved any of the 77 applications they received from people who wanted to hold protests during the Beij...
Vanessa Richmond | Posted 08.14.2008 | Entertainment
Sports fans may still be watching, but the Olympics have gone quiet on the pop culture radar. The Games used to be the champion of reality TV, but now the new generation of reality TV athlete is faster, higher and stronger.
Will Durst | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
I swear that if I hear the word "dream" uttered one more time, somebody at NBC is going to have chopsticks sticking out of parts of their body that chopsticks don't normally stick out of.
AP/Washington Post | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
On the same day that China condemned President Bush's speech on its human rights policies, the country tried to hide an undercurrent of protest ready ...
AP | Audra Ang | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
BEIJING- Activists from the U.S. and U.K. unfurled pro-Tibet banners and spoke out against China's rights record in Tiananmen Square on Wednesday in t...
Jeremy Haft | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
If real human rights reform is what you want, then castigating the Chinese on the world stage isn't too productive -- mainly because it impedes the progress that is actually being made on the ground.
Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
These protests will continue to take place because this is precisely the time to bring attention to China's horrendous record on human rights and freedom.
Susan Brownell | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
At the Beijing Olympics, will activists attempt to carry out public protests and demonstrations, and how will the Chinese authorities react if they do?
Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
CNN Reports: The McCain campaign has weighed in on Hillary Clinton's call for President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies of this year's Olympic...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2008 | Home
MSNBC reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that while she does not advocate a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, she does think that the attendance...
AP | JEROME PUGMIRE and ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 04.07.2008 | Home
PARIS — Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China's human rights record turned a relay thro...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics