Yesterday HuffPost's Eyes and Ears team wrapped up a 10-day examination of reporting on the topic of health care, a project in partnership with NewsTrust. For a full breakdown of our findings, check out NewsTrust's blog.

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In order to bring you the most thoroughly reported stories about health care reform, the Huffington Post has teamed up with NewsTrust for a week long Health Care News Hunt. People have been rating health care related news all week (You can to by signing up here!)....

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We've all asked ourselves this. When we think about what we can do as individuals, especially related to the state of increasingly urgent environmental concerns, the idea that one person can...

Keeping track of the health care reform debate has been a mammoth undertaking. A single well written article can clarify the current political playing field, while an incomplete or myopic report can skew one's perception of the conversation. To help HuffPost readers keep track of the debate while promoting the...

During the two-week News Hunt that HuffPost Eyes & Ears ran in partnership with NewsTurst and that ended this past Sunday, a Pakistani Taliban leaders was killed by U.S. drone planes, the Pakistani Supreme Court ruled against former President Pervez Musharraf, a group of Muslims leveled an attack...

On Monday, HuffPost's Eyes and Ears kicked off our two-week Pakistan News Hunt in partnership with News Trust. Thanks to over a hundred Eyes & Ears investigators who signed up through News Trust, we have highlighted some great journalism on the situation in Pakistan.

We started by compiling...

Have you ever stumbled on a fantastic article and wanted to share it with the whole world? The Huffington Post has teamed up with NewsTrust to give you the opportunity to do just that.

Commencing today and ending on Sunday, August 9, NewsTrust members will join forces with...

The House has worked at alarming speed, rushing a mammoth 1,018-page health care bill through two of three committees since the markup process began on Tuesday.

During these preliminary stages of the legislative process, HuffPost's Eyes & Ears is calling on readers to help make sense of the...

The Internet has transformed the way citizens interact with their government. The basic ability to access a piece of legislation online revolutionized government transparency and populous participation. Today, the websites and interactive tools allow citizen to ask questions of their elected officials, weigh in on new regulations, and track government...

Jennifer Preston, a veteran reporter and editor, became the New York Times first social media editor this week, and from her early tweets it looks like she'll be learning on the job.

Following the rules of online organizing, Preston made her twitter debut by asking for input, tweeting,...

Just over a month ago HuffPost citizen reporter Dawn Teo wrote about the ASU's refusal to give President Obama the customary honorary degree when he gives the school's commencement address tomorrow (the story was uncovered by student journalist and HuffPost blogger Adam Sneed). As the first to write...

Foreclosure signs that litter American lawns have been the prevailing image of the housing crisis until this week, when thousands of homeowners lined sixtieth street, 3 blocks from the White House, waiting for help to lower their mortgage rates. While Congress discussed how best to bail out Fannie May and...

Last week I interviewed Arianna Huffington on the media and Senator McCain, two central topics in her new book, Right is Wrong. I couldn't help getting her candid opinion on Barack Obama as well. Below is my conversation with Arianna in a three part series:

"Right is Wrong" and The...

Permanent bases in Iraq, legal impunity for all American soldiers and contractors, control of Iraqi airspace, and, most shockingly, the use of Iraqi territory for attacking other nations in the region. These are a few of the items on the table in negotiations between President Bush and Prime Minister al-Maliki...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) leaves a behemoth's footprint in Washington, DC. The mythical largesse of the organization was confirmed recently by the National Journal, which rated it the second most influential lobby, ahead of the AFL-CIO. AIPAC garners its reputation, in large part, because of an adept...

Last week, I posted a video from West Virginia depicting the overt racism and pervasive fear surrounding Barack Obama's candidacy. While race has been a subtext since before Iowa, the conversation has been largely theoretical, with statisticians guessing at the salience of the Bradley Effect and pundits invoking the...

President Bush apparently took a long distance swipe at presidential candidate Barack Obama in Israel yesterday, debasing the notion that America should negotiate with Iran as the "false comfort of appeasement."

Bush used a particularly uncouth Nazi analogy for his Israeli audience, saying, "We have heard this foolish delusion...

While covering the primary in West Virginia, I encountered pervasive racism only hinted at by Tuesday's exit polls and the pundits who wonder aloud if America is ready for a black president. What I heard on Tuesday was shocking. It depicts the blind prejudice that still possesses pockets of America...

During last Sunday's sermon, Reverend Otis Moss III, who succeeded Rev. Wright at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, offered an intimate and perspicacious meditation on the media's obsession with Rev. Wright. Moss recalled the slave owner's practice of separating so called house slaves from field slaves to turn the...

Clinton recently unveiled her new policy platform of "massive retaliation" against Iran in the event of a war between Iran and Israel. This Middle East policy, seemingly irrelevant to the current primary debate, has led Clinton's critics to question her commitment to withdrawing troops from Iraq. In fact, coupled with...