COVER STORY
Politics as Showbiz
Kurt Andersen and the comedian Mo Rocca explore the often strange relationship between show business and American politics.

Rock On GOP
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.
Go to Tai Anderson's web chat on the GOP website
Go to the Third Day website
Go to the Gotham Road website
Go to an article about conservative punk

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
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 American politics forever.
Go to the Chestnut Brass Company
Go to the Old Sturbridge Village website
Go to the home page for American Political Items Collectors, a memorabilia collectors organization

Silver Screen vs. The Teleprompter
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.
Go to a website about Movies Set in Washington - from WETA

SPECIAL GUEST
Mo Rocca
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-- comes out this fall. For four years he was a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central.
Go to a web page with more information on Mo Rocca
Go to the Daily Show website
Go to Bravo’s Things I Hate About You (Host Mo Rocca)

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Commentary
Reading, Between the Lines
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How Art Works
Origami
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 with origami artists and their fans at a recent convention in New York.
Go to the origami USA home page
Go to the work of Robert Lang
Go to the late Dr. David Huffman’s website to find a great example of curved folding

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