Maureen Dowd: New Year's Eve With Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano and I hadn't planned to spend New Year's Eve together. But there we were on this soggy Thursday, sitting in her office on the out...
Janet Napolitano and I hadn't planned to spend New Year's Eve together. But there we were on this soggy Thursday, sitting in her office on the out...
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 12.31.2009 | Living
We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.
Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics
By Luke Mullins Special to the Huffington Post Introduction With as many as 1,700 students pursuing just 32 slots, the chances of winning a Rh...
Jim Selman | Posted 12.29.2009 | Living
We've lost a lot of our our innocence in only 10 years. From Al Quaeda to Bernie Madoff, we're waking up to the realization that the American Dream is just a dream if we aren't responsible for it.
nydailynews.com | By Michael J. Feeney and Katie Nelson | Posted 12.29.2009 | New York
Fellow firefighters said Long Island firefighter and 9/11 hero James Ryan deserved a line of duty funeral with all the bells, whistles and family bene...
Vanity Fair | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics
A decade ago, America was flush and at peace. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan, and the controversial ...
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 12.28.2009 | World
A worldwide struggle by a transnational movement aided by the Internet and social media enables would-be "lone" fanatics anywhere to market themselves to terror groups as recruits.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.26.2009 | Politics
So what now? Will the Department of Homeland Security now require that we remove our pants too, leaving us standing there even more humiliated in our underwear and tees?
David Vines | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics
There is no "oh, well, except for terrorists" clause to the Sixth Amendment. And that is what makes our country so great.
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 12.24.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Fresh bread will soon be baking high above ground zero. The new World Trade Center got its first restaurant Wednesday – a sand...
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living
The following 10 stories show the breadth of religious actors and events and how deeply they affected the last 10 years of American and world history.
Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 12.22.2009 | Denver
So much of America's best and worst happen here in the Centennial State.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics
Here's my fantasy this holiday season: I'd like, that is, to obliterate TomDispatch, for without the Afghan war, my website would never have existed. Here's the saddest thing: I know full well that its future is assured as long as I care to do it.
Bloomberg | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business
In the first six months of 2010, about 6,000 employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will take a break from their spreadsheets and move across the south...
Julie Menin | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York
Emotions bubbled to the surface in lower Manhattan this week. Neighborhood activists lambasted Eric Holder's decision to hold the KSM trial in the shadow of the World Trade Center site.
AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A lawyer has asked a federal appeals court to let families of victims of the World Trade Center attacks remove ashes of their loved o...
AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is forming a squad to assist prosecutors in the upcoming New York trials of Sept. 11 suspects. F...
AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — New pictures and video showing the rebuilding at the World Trade Center site are now on two social networking sites. The Port Author...
AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan – who grew up in Maryland before alleg...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2009 | Media
The Post published an article reporting rap legends Public Enemy referred to 9/11 as "a joke," when in reality they were referring to emergency number 9-1-1. Happily, something is being done about it!
William Bradley | Posted 12.11.2009 | World
Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.
AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric Holder made an unannounced visit to a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday to inspect security for the pending trial ...
AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New Y...
Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 12.08.2009 | World
Al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorists don't need Afghanistan to carry out operations. These can be mounted from anywhere or anyplace, from Yemen to Somalia, to Hamburg or to ... Detroit.
nytimes.com | MAUREEN DOWD | Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics