- September 18, 2006 • 2:39 pm PDT
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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In the wake of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's much fraught welcome at Columbia University yesterday, and in consideration of today's...
A couple days ago The Los Angeles Times ran a piece about Oscar acceptance speeches-how actors tend to use the forum as a political bully pulpit,...
After mostly avoiding the issue of race during his campaign, Barack Obama chose the controversial topic to be the thrust of an address this...
Obama's speech on the economy at Cooper Union today was no Philadelphia address on the state of race relations in America. It's harder to stun...

In honor of President's Day, watch the best speeches given by presidents that don't exist.
It's not very "street," but Doniphan West High School's Alaine Caudle gave an fun valedictorian rap instead of a boring speech.
In preparation for this night of dramatic speech-making, we encourage you to take a trip around the internet to see what history has to offer in...
The media is buzzing with news of Obama's speech at Cairo University this morning. Obama's basic message to Muslims (and everyone with a stake in...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gave a speech just minutes ago that left a nation of millions in a rage. Here is that bad speech.

Here's the full text of the State of the Union speech, for your reference.

Boss won't let you watch TV at work? That's OK: Here's the big budget speech you just missed.
President Barack Obama delivered a sober speech upon accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Thursday (video after the jump). Speaking with grace...
There's an interesting story over at CNN.com, which discusses the degree of difficulty in President Barack Obama's speech to the country on...

In his speech yesterday at the Tucson memorial service, President Obama eschewed politics and called for unity. Watch and read it here.
Between jokes, Coco reflected on what he learned from his "profound and very public disappointment" with The Tonight Show.

Facebook is a private company that functions largely as a public space. Should we be policing its content?
Fox News may have gotten itself in hot water over some selective editing, much like they did a few months ago when they edited clips from a large...

The president said a "massacre" in Benghazi "was not in our national interest."

The social networking giant ponders censorship in order to crack the Chinese market.

Watching Obama’s speech as a foreigner in Egypt, I fear that his professed support for Arab activists is an empty promise.
