Given some recent calls for HuffPost bloggers to cease posting on the site, I've been spending a fair amount of time in my role as head of communications for The Huffington Post Media Group dispelling misconceptions about how our group blog works.

I've been seeking to explain that HuffPost...

One year after operation "shock and awe," the nation's newspaper of record conceded its reporting during the run-up to the Iraq war was "not as rigorous as it should have been." But this was a shameful, too little, too late mea culpa for the New York Times'...

While Stephanopoulos did the necessary mea culpa in response to the explosive web reaction following his botched Giuliani interview, the larger question we should be asking is why the media continue to give the former NYC mayor a platform at all.

Giuliani's record of poor judgment when...

There he is again in today's New York Times Styles section, beaming with his younger wife Julia at a party celebrating his $100 million donation to the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home to City Opera and the New York City Ballet -- in exchange for which...

I knew that heading to the Gay March in DC this Sunday was the right thing to do. Weeks ago, on autopilot, my partner and I booked the hotel and train, and made plans for dinner in DC - with a straight friend. We made arrangements cause we'd heard about...

Analyzing the body language of the beer drinkers at the White House "brew-haha" yesterday, the New York Post today nails it: "O relaxed, sarge guarded, Gates trying." Says a "body language expert" of Sgt. James Crowley's demeanor: "His body language was very defensive ... I didn't see any apologetic...

As we head into the inauguration of Barack Obama, it never occurred to me that I'd feel anything less than ecstatic. The hope that Obama might be president consumed me totally this year, from his epic battle with HRC to his victory speech in Chicago (which I, with tears in...

Given their history, Mormons know about being targeted for being different. Yet in a full-on offensive, the LDS Church mobilized in favor of California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage. Mormons donated $19 million to the cause -- nearly four out of five dollars raised. And now...

With Hillary's big Ohio win and smaller Texas one, look for the whackos to become unhinged in their racist attacks on Obama now that they perceive some vulnerability in the candidate. And they'll do it in a way that makes it seem like Obama acts like he has something to...

According to the World Health Organization, about 151,000 civilians were killed in bomb attacks and other violence in Iraq in the first three years after America invaded Iraq.

Yet here's Roger Cohen yesterday in the New York Times: "I still believe Iraq's freedom outweighs its terrible price."...