Aug 28th, 2008 · Georgia Rep. John Lewis marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 45 years ago when he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Sen. Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination on the same date. For Lewis, that marks the start of a new time in racial politics.
Aug 26th, 2008 · America America is an ambitious, old-fashioned novel about politics, power and class in a small, upstate New York town. The Nixon-era tale is Canin's sixth book.
Aug 18th, 2008 · Attorneys say disputes over the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, a World War II-era law designed to protect active duty service members from foreclosures, repossessions, evictions and other financial misfortunes, are becoming more common.
Aug 10th, 2008 · In an era of chefs as stars, one young chef on the rise walked out of the trendy restaurant world and decided instead to oversee the menu at a soup kitchen. Now Steve Badt and scores of volunteers make and serve breakfast to hundreds of homeless people in the basement of a church a mile from the White House.
Aug 4th, 2008 · The man whose books on Soviet-era gulags won him international acclaim and years of exile from his homeland has died. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died Sunday of heart failure. He was 89. Although Solzhenitsyn continued to write through his last years, it is largely his early work that he is remembered for today.
Aug 1st, 2008 · During the Cold War era, the CIA was the only U.S. spy agency. But as threats to national security have become more diverse, other government agencies — such as the FBI and the DEA — are recruiting foreign informants and pursuing their own intelligence leads. And that's causing competition and conflict.
Jul 29th, 2008 · Dee Dee Bridgewater says the tenor saxophonist was the "epitome of a bygone era of legendary jazz musicians — dapper, suave, debonair, classy, hip, and he could tell a mean joke." Bridgewater and pianist Michael Weiss celebrate Johnny Griffin's life.
Jul 26th, 2008 · When people think of the player piano, they usually think of Sting-era ragtime music. But during that era, a composer named Conlon Nancarrow created incredibly intricate pieces for the player piano that sound like a turn-of-the-century roadhouse gone berserk.