Mo Rocca is a comedian, news commentator, and the host of Bravo’s Things I Hate About You. He’ll be a correspondent for Larry King during CNN’s coverage of the Democratic Convention in Boston. His book, All the President’s Pets — about the pivotal role that presidential pets play in politics ...

The Democrats have little trouble finding support among pop musicians. But on websites such as conservativepunk.com and GOPunk.com rockers are rallying around the current president. We sent Trey Kay to talk to members of Third Day and Gotham Road, conservatives who rock.

In 1840, when General William Henry Harrison was running for President, his campaign organized a gigantic rally on a battlefield in Indiana where Harrison had once led a regiment of armed settlers in a battle against the local Indians. Jackson Braider explains how that rally, and others like it, changed ...

You can’t expect logic and factual truth from movies. And few of us would pay ten dollars to watch C-SPAN. But Richard Paul just can’t ignore the differences between real life Washington and the Capitol Hill created by Hollywood.

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes without cutting or gluing. Now, this ancient art is going high-tech. The emerging field of computational origami uses computers and mathematics to figure out just how much you can do with a single sheet of paper. Gregory Warner caught up ...

Reading fiction is now officially a minority taste in America: less than half of Americans read a work of fiction, poetry or drama in the last year. Kurt wonders what this means, especially for young adults.