Reading Sarah Palin

Here's a piece I wrote for Time.com about clues in Sarah Palin's own writing to what she might be like as McCain's Veep candidate...

The Clan McCain

For this week's issue (see the cover at left), a colleague and I wrote a graphic tracing John McCain's ancestry back several generations. My favorite part is that when his mother, Roberta, learned that her son had yelled obscenities at his captors in Vietnam, she threatened to wash his mouth out with soap--though by then McCain was more than 60 years old.
The online gallery is a little different from the print version, but click here to view it.

Democrats go to Denver

As part of the walk-up to the DNC, I have a piece in this week's issue (cover at left) about David Gilbert-Pederson, 17, the youngest delegate. He got his start making signs for Walter Mondale when he was 12, and now he's home-schooled to make time for campaigning.