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WATCH: Arianna, Jesse Ventura, and Ben Stein Discuss Afghanistan on Larry King
WATCH: Arianna on Morning Joe: Afghanistan is Not a Right-Left Issue
WATCH: Arianna Discusses Obama's Afghanistan Speech with Dylan Ratigan
WATCH: Arianna Discusses the 2010 Impact of Tea Partiers on Countdown
The inaugural #DowningTweet party brought together Twitter users with the desire to stop the scandal of a woman dying every minute of every day from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications.
Guess Christine and I can kiss that Waldorf Astoria wedding... Brooklyn Botanical Gardens wedding... Montauk Beach wedding -- you fill in the blank -- goodbye. But we have two things today we didn't have earlier.
It's Barack Obama's war now -- a war in which the Nobel Peace Prize-winner has placed himself at the helm of the largest military force ever sent to Afghanistan. Here are some key things to know.
Jay Nordlinger, over at the National Review, is tired of teabagging and wants to try something different. Or at least he wants it called something different.
A partnership between the University of California and Los Angeles County to open a new hospital in South L.A. moved closer to reality with the unanimous approval of the UC Board of Regents.
Sarah Palin's recent, careful elevation of a foundational conspiracy theory used by extremists to demonize the President warrants unequivocal condemnation and study from across the political spectrum.
A hunger for control, common to all of us, is the root of so many problems in life. Staying true to the same ideas and ways of doing things makes it that much harder for us to adapt to the inevitable changes in life.
Can you imagine an America without a strong middle class? If you can, would it still be America as we know it?
The thought of Sarah Palin perpetuating the utterly debunked myth that Barack Obama may not be a U.S. citizen somehow seems, even after all we've heard from her, oddly unfathomable.
Alan Khazei represents a rare opportunity to elect a bridge builder with a proven ability to work inside Washington, while also galvanizing outside pressure to effectively pass meaningful legislation.
While the unemployment rate dropped last month, the overall trend is still rising. We need a few more months of data before we can claim a change in the overall trend.
The end game of any major legislative fight, such as what we're going through on health care, is what I call the crazy season. Here are some general rules to help you understand the season a little bit more.
America voted last year to put the interests of ordinary people ahead of the greed of Wall Street. What they didn't bargain for was another four years for one of the key architects of the Bush economy.
President Obama made his long-awaited decision to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan by 30,000. Will it be his undoing?
All that wanting and doing can takes us far away from ourselves, and out of the present moment where everything happens. The end result is often dissatisfaction no matter how much "stuff" we achieve.
The real goals of the Afghanistan escalation are domestic and electoral. Like Lyndon Johnson who escalated in Vietnam, Obama lives in mortal fear of being called a wimp by Republicans.
Americans like to compare themselves to old Romans, especially those martial neocons-of-the-soft-hands and their adder-tongued women. But hearken: It may be a fair analogy.
Yesterday, President Obama convened a job summit to get Americans back to work. In San Francisco, we're already delivering solutions with a public-private partnership that is showing immediate, demonstrable results.
It's not because of bin Laden, al-Qaeda, or the Taliban. The real reason behing the surge is Pakistan, a failed state with nuclear warheads.
It's true that I mainly give books as holiday gifts. It's my nature. Here my favorite books of 2009. Holiday Greetings to one and all from the Ambassadude.
Once we've conflated celebrity with power, it's inevitable that we will see a celebrity's errors as a betrayal. We made him famous, we imputed power to him, and then he took advantage of it.
