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Fladen File: Moms, Pets, Coulters, Palins. PLUS Fracking/GOP Immigration Denialism Updates

While many go hungry, the First Pets of France and the United States are not among them.

Wiretap: Ignoring Putinism takes olympic-level training

"For sheer moral horror nothing can compare with his role in perpetuating a war that has killed well over 100,000 people and displaced 9 million."

2022 Colorado Olympic bid comes with slew of environmental, economic concerns

With the rush of successfully hosting a major cycling event still fresh in the state’s collective consciousness, Colorado officials are starting to once again dream of Olympic glory.

Colorado 2022 Olympics, because elevation matters

A game a lot of the jaded journalists covering the Olympic Winter Games like to engage in is coining the most derogatory nickname describing the shortcomings of the host city or venue. In Italy in 2006, for example, the purpose-built (by Fiat) and frankly quite hideous ski town of Sestriere became “Sewerstriere” or “Disastriere.”