WASHINGTON -- Two separate campaigns have been launched to pressure AARP to stand firm against cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits. The camp...
HuffingtonPost.com | Hayley Miller | Posted 01.03.2012
WASHINGTON -- As temperatures drop and snow begins to fall, thousands of Occupy protesters are beginning to fear the approaching winter while many of ...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Oil barons Charles and David Koch held their annual billionaires' summit in Palm Springs on Sunday, Na...
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times is finally calling it torture -- when someone else has admitted to it.
Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011
For almost four decades, under cover of his supposedly "objective" reporting, Woodward has represented the viewpoints of the military and intelligence establishments. Often he has done so in the context of complex inside maneuvering.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 850,000 people were arrested for marijuana violations in 2009 -- the second biggest haul in American history, according to the annual Unifor...
Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
Larry Summers and Tim Geithner may believe the recession is over, but you cannot fool people who see the lives they've spent years building slipping through their fingers
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011
Chairman Genachowski is now squarely in the crosshairs of the netroots community. Should he cave to corporate special interest and sell out Net Neutrality, it will become the signature action of a failed Obama appointee.
Barry Eisler | Posted 05.25.2011
The right has done America a lot of damage by cross-promoting its ideology through fiction. It's time the left returned fire, using every tool at its disposal to restore America to safety and sanity.
ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011
What's wrong with this picture? Air America vanishes into the ether, while Glenn Beck indoctrinates 2.7 million daily viewers with his histrionic brand of right-wing lunacy.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
Student lending reform could have passed the Senate long ago, but because it had to wait on health care, the lobbyists have had plenty of time to chip away at the Senate. But colleges across the country can't wait another year for relief.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
Some will try to paint our push for candidates like Bill Halter as a "purge" of "moderates" from the Democratic party. It's not. Blanche Lincoln is a radical corporatist. That's not the "center" of anything.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate bill isn't a "starter home," it's a sink hole. It needs to die so something else can take its place. It doesn't matter whether people are on the right or the left.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.
John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011
Quantum theory says that an observer can literally change reality. What is to stop the Obama White House from sending out teams of ACORN-trained "observers" to "change" our communities into whatever they want?
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
An unusually bi-partisan coalition opposes the Senate's proposed health care bill for its requirement that middle-class Americans buy insurance or else face annual fines.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
Progressive observers may be forgetting that the 60 votes in the Senate necessary to invoke cloture, in most people's calculations, includes Joe Lieberman (I-Hartford Insurance).
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
As a three time breast cancer survivor, I do not believe that those who "race for the cure" and donate their hard earned dollars think they're doing it so the money can go to Hadassah Lieberman.
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
My column this week looks at the controversy over a series of surveys conducted by SurveyUSA for the liberal web site Firedloglake. Please click...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite flying under the radar, the Working Families Party is perhaps today's most encouraging model for achieving progressive results over the long haul.
Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011
The media website explores the strange, the controversial and the timely in exciting often edgy long and short form documentaries, covering stories that mainstream media just can't or won't do.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no "we" in the protester's view, no welcome for your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of fellow Americans, much less immigrants. There is only my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my church and my ethnic group,
Ben Wyskida | Posted 05.25.2011
If you voted last year, gave money last year, obsessed over the blogs and debates and Sarah Palin last year, then right now is the whole ball game. Here, in ascending order of difficulty, are five things you can/should do.
Anne Hill | Posted 05.25.2011
I think the secret fear of those who disparage bloggers is not that they are slovenly or erratic, but that they are tapping into realms of consciousness deeper than the rational mind has access to.
Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.17.2011
If you want a job working for this city, be prepared to hand over the log in and password info to all your social networking and blogging sites.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.17.2012