Esperanza Spalding is always surprising people. Last February, the 27-year-old jazz bassist and singer took everyone by surprise when she beat out...
David J. Dunn, PhD | Posted 12.31.2011
To help my students think about the way the market works, and especially how it affects real people, I have them play Monopoly. But I modify the rules to make the game more realistic.
HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Christian | Posted 12.06.2011
Being escorted by six policemen at JFK Airport is a great way to jump the lines, green activist John Stewart tells The Huffington Post. Stewart, ch...
Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.05.2011
Last night on The Daily Show, Michael Lewis spoke with Jon Stewart about his newest book, "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World." His journalisti...
Posted 11.30.2011
UPDATE: 10/1: The organization that organized Stewart's American tour issued a press release with the following statement: On September 29, St...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.24.2011
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 10.17.2011
Just like he did when Sarah Palin launched her "One Nation" bus tour at the beginning of the summer, on Tuesday night Jon Stewart said there's no way ...
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 09.27.2011
On Wednesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart put aside the debt ceiling debate to focus on the recent terrorist attacks in Norway, or at least how F...
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 09.28.2011
Since Jon Stewart appeared on Fox News Sunday last weekend, "The Daily Show" has devoted two segments to skewering the network's biases. On Monday nig...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.21.2011
Jon Stewart is a true genius. But he's a comic genius. And without even being a true journalist he brilliantly managed to do what no one else has done: get Fox to admit that it's a politically biased television network.
The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 08.20.2011
Jon Stewart opened Monday night's episode of "The Daily Show" by addressing his weekend appearance on "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace." After ...
Steven Weber | Posted 08.19.2011
The artfulness with which Fox can deliver its product is a wonder to behold, but owes more to the reach technology has within our media-addicted culture than the actual validity of what's being broadcast.
Posted 08.09.2011
Although many celebrities have tackled sports in film or participated in the occasional famous people golf tournament, not many have actually played s...
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 08.08.2011
After three days of penis puns and a follow-up segment Monday, "The Daily Show" took one more shot at the Anthony Weiner scandal on Tuesday night's sh...
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 08.07.2011
It's been really interesting to observe Jon Stewart on these past few episodes of "The Daily Show" since the Anthony Weiner scandal broke. Stewart's b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2011
As you probably already know, the most important meeting of modern political minds happened this week in New York City when fake presidential candidat...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Of all the icons that the iconoclastic Jon Stewart chooses to smash, the one that gets media figures in the most trouble is the infallibility of Israel, which is why Stewart is all alone out there. But he won't be for long.
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011
On Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart officially began his "Indecision 2012" coverage with a look at the Republican candidates, none of which h...
Raul A. Reyes | Posted 05.25.2011
If CNN wants a zero-tolerance policy on bigotry and hate speech, terrific. Yet it seems as though it was selectively enforced at the expense of one of the most visible Hispanics in broadcasting.
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011
Jon Stewart continued his coverage of the Arizona shooting aftermath Thursday night, this time going after Fox News for actually criticizing the memor...
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 05.25.2011
Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington has sparked more than 1,160 mini-rallies in 84 countries, morphing into something of a global po...
Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011
Ever the optimist, I decided that my last post of the year should be a tribute to the things, from Mahler to Freedom, that made the past year endurable, if not, at times, outright beautiful.
Posted 05.25.2011
After much bickering back and forth over the Bush era tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, President Obama announced this week that a deal ...
Caitlin Colford | Posted 05.25.2011
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk is a hilarious collection of off-beat tales that are certainly not suited for children. I sat down with Sedaris last night at the New York stop on his book tour.
Melanie Billings-Yun | Posted 05.25.2011
I am not a supporter of the Tea Party. On the contrary, I believe their anti-government , anti-spending platform is bad for the country. But just beca...
The Huffington Post | Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.13.2012