A person moves toward poetry out of need, says Robert Bly, when religious instruction perhaps fails to resonate deeply enough, or when trying to get in touch with one's senses. This was certainly true for me, as I faced a devastating medical diagnosis and forged a path back...

Ever had Facebook censor/block one of your comments, or erase a post or photo from your page?

Last week, I posted a link about Democratic Michigan state representative Lisa Brown being banned for using the word "vagina" on the...

Admit it. You think poetry holds no meaning for you and is just something that bored you in school. Maybe you liked a few love poems that first time you fell hard, but mostly, you believe poetry has zero relevance today for your life, health and work.

Perhaps you even...

Most progressives view the Dubai Ports World uproar as one of the only times the Bush Administration bent to the will of the people, backing down from allowing the Emirate-owned business to take over management of several major ports along the U.S. eastern seaboard.

A new book,

I like what I'm reading about what you intend to do with the 10 p.m. slot on MSNBC. Your network is sitting on top of a tremendous opportunity. This is a seminal moment, one that can lead us -- professional and citizen media -- into new journalism and media...

As Mr. Dickens might say: It was the best of books, it was the worst of books. And the rest of it fits, too: It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was...

I was living in Torino, Italy, when Bush's war on Iraq broke out, trying rather desperately to finish a collection of short stories I'd started years before. Each day, though, as the U.S. moved closer to attacking a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11, I realized that my...

Dear Robert Torricelli:

I read your March 13 column on PolitickerNJ, the "virtual watercooler for [New Jersey's] political elite," about how everyone (who's anyone, I surmise) recognizes the need for superdelegates.

My reaction to your column, Torch, is that you are the avatar of all that is wrong with...

When a top Hillary Clinton advisor predicted on February 16 that his candidate would "lock down" the Democratic nomination, called the number of elections and delegates won by Barack Obama "irrelevant," and later characterized the race as "wide open," it occurred to me that in the homestretch to March...

Read more HuffPost coverage and reaction to Geraldine Ferraro's comments

Dear Ms. Ferraro:

I learned from your Op-Ed in the New York Times yesterday about your role in setting up the superdelegate system, and that you believe superdelegates should lead, and not follow the will...

With Barack Obama's ten-state winning streak, and growing pledged delegate lead over Hillary Clinton, we are likely seeing the last gasp of the Clinton campaign in the run-up to the Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4th.

If Senator Clinton doesn't win big in Texas and Ohio, the only real...

Dear Paul Krugman:

You had to know what effect your pot-stirring yesterday would have on the painful Democratic debate going on between Clinton and Obama supporters, over which candidate should be our nominee.

Shame on you for singling out one side's support as nothing more than a cult following....

While eating my yogurt and granola on Saturday morning, I had an epiphany. Mike Huckabee was on CNN, addressing a student rally at the University of Maryland. I can assure you, however, that my new understanding is not attributed to anything Huckabee said.

My lightbulb moment came when a student...

Between the battle over whether citizens of Michigan and Florida will see their delegates seated at the convention, and the uproar over what effect the super-delegates may have in this mother-of-all-races for the Democratic nomination, rank-and-file Democrats have plenty to be anxious about this primary season.

One of these problems...