The bonds established between mothers and children are sacred. Mothers provide unconditional love, caring and support, and they teach their children to live in the world with a sense of purpose. But life circumstances oftentimes get in the way of relationships and affect the outcomes for better or for worse....

How progressive is Barack Obama? It's a question pundits, bloggers, and journalists have trouble grappling with. But one individual goes beyond the Obama phenomenon and investigates who Obama is and what he's all about. In Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics, author Paul Street cuts to the...

"Mission compromised" may best describe U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan. According to journalists Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, American foreign policy and military officials are making several costly miscalculations of Afghanistan's politics, history, and culture. In their new book, Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story, Gould and Fitzgerald...

As I surf the Internet and visit my favorite blogs, I read that many people are saying "why didn't Barack Obama say this" or "why didn't Obama say that?" Many prominent Mideast experts and bloggers are expressing disappointment in Obama. They...

Now that we've passed the 100-day mark of the Obama administration, I wanted to check in with author and comedian Dennis Perrin. Last summer I interviewed Perrin for Huffington Post just after his new release Savage Mules: The Democrats...

"I'm more afraid of men [in my unit] than I am with the enemy." Those were the words that Helen Benedict heard from several female soldiers. The enemy was within. Since March of 2003, more than 160,500 women have served in Iraq. More women have fought and died during this...

In one of his final interviews, former president George W. Bush told ABC News Martha Raddatz that the war in Iraq was justified because of al-Qaeda. But Raddatz said that wasn't "until the U.S. invaded." Then Bush responded with "So what? The point is that al-Qaeda said they're going...

Jack Shaheen, a sort of one-man anti-defamation league, is the author of the groundbreaking work "Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People," which is also the subject of a documentary film. A former CBS News consultant on Middle East Affairs, Shaheen is one of the world's foremost...

It's likely that most Americans have never heard of Katherine Gun. She is the former British secret service officer who leaked an email describing a plot orchestrated by the Bush and Blair administrations to force the hand of the United Nations in authorizing the invasion of Iraq. Gun was put...

Vincent Bugliosi is a renowned prosecutor and respected lawyer. How good is he? Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder convictions without a single loss. His most famous trial, the Charles Manson case, became the basis of his classic book, Helter Skelter....

DENVER- Leading Democrats held a press conference at Union Station today and got more than they bargained for.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D- SC) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) introduced a proposal for energy independence. As one of the speakers addressed increasing green energy development and implementation,...

"I am progressive, I am liberal. I make no apologies." Those were the first ten words written by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga when the Web log Daily Kos was launched in 2002. At the time the Bush Administration was hellbent on invading Iraq. Daily Kos gave people an outlet to vent...

The presidential election is turning again on a choice between conversation and confrontation. How will we choose to approach our neighbors, allies and adversaries -- domestic and foreign? Helena Cobban is a veteran journalist who has traveled extensively around the world. She writes for the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston...

Is the Democratic Party really a party of peace? Not according to satirist Dennis Perrin. In his latest book, Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War, he writes that the Democratic party has long been a party of war. Perrin, a former joke writer for Bill Maher, offers curt...

His colleagues call him "Big Media Matt." That's because Matthew Yglesias is a respected voice of the liberal blogosphere. The 28 year-old Yglesias has accomplished much. He graduated magna cum laude, from Harvard, served as editor-in-chief at The Harvard Independent, and upon graduating, he became a writing fellow at The...

UNITY, N.H. -- Ken Burns, the prolific documentary filmmaker known for his PBS series on the Civil War, Baseball and Jazz, was among the crowd at the big Democratic Party unity event here last Friday. Now a sort of unofficial national expert on popular American history, Burns has been nominated...

I started my day like I do every day: wake up, turn on my laptop, and get caught up with the news. This morning, I was surprised to see investigations into impeachment was back in the headlines. David Edwards and Mike Sheehan of the popular Web site The Raw...

DUMMERSTON, VT-- Memorial Day weekend has come and gone. All weekend, I saw veterans honored on television, the newspapers, parades, etc. I saw more than my share of yellow ribbons, American flags, 21-gun salutes and more. But something was missing, something I wish would be covered every Memorial Day: voices...

WILMINGTON, VT- Reporters wanting to interview campaign staffers are having a hard time trying to get through. That's because some campaigns are putting a tight lid on who gets to say what. The Deerfield Valley News, an independent weekly in southern Vermont, wanted to interview Brandon Riker, a former Deerfield...

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Matt Taibbi's latest piece for Rolling Stone is Mick Huckabee, Our Favorite Right-Wing Nutjob.

He's often referred to as the next Hunter Thompson but the truth...