President Obama got us to the tipping point. It's up to the rest of us to make marriage equality a reality.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.09.2011
NEW YORK -- Two top campaign advisers to President Barack Obama hit the media circuit this week to help shape a general election narrative against pot...
Posted 06.18.2011
CNN anchor Howard Kurtz showed his unflappability when he let a guest's expletive go by unmentioned. The guest on Kurtz's "Reliable Sources," forme...
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 05.25.2011
Buddy Roemer has announced that he is launching an exploratory committee to consider a run for the presidency. He has also announced a campaign different from the campaign of every other candidate. A president, Roemer says, "must be free to lead": free of commitments to anything save the principles he commits to. So Roemer's campaign will take no PAC money. It will take no more than $100 in contributions from any individual. And everyone who contributes anything regardless of how small will be disclosed. This should be emulated across the board.
Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011
The idea of No Labels is to appeal to those who believe that rarely does anyone have a corner on the truth, that the strongest result is usually obtained by taking the best from all the arguments.
Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011
The Coffee Party you say? Still in its infancy, it was born with a single post on Facebook, its founder conveying deep dismay at what passes for political discourse in this country.
Cindy Handler | Posted 05.25.2011
Now, just in time for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the GOP leaders are insisting that, vast evidence to the contrary, we all need to support the inequitable policies that favor rich white men.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
There are few traditions more central to political campaigns than debates between the candidates. In the biggest races, they're nationally televised e...
Yuna Shin | Posted 05.25.2011
This call for a review of the 14th Amendment is not only un-American, it treads on dangerous paths: a path back to pre-1868 slavery, a path back to the period of darkness in American history.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Former aides to the George W. Bush Administration are retaliating against a recent flurry of Republican calls for a repeal or readdressing of the 14th...
The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011
News flash: President Obama hasn't held a formal press conference in almost a year (274 days and counting) yet has golfed 32 times since he was electe...
Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Scarborough could be a great Republican presidential candidate in 2012, according to Republican strategist and media adviser Mark McKinnon. McKin...
The Daily Beast | Mark McKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party--and he's donating $1,00...
POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...
Eric Kuhn | Posted 05.25.2011
Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
I quite liked Mark McKinnon's piece in The Daily Beast, today, about Twitter "jumping the shark." I especially liked his admonition that we all must ...
The Daily Beast | Mark McKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011
Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion. It's part of the web 2.0 nonsense tha...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
If Obama is truly committed to change, being more optimistic may not help him in that effort. Americans voted for Obama because they were acutely aware of the problems the country faces.
Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011
OK, Mr. President, enough with the doomsday talk already. We get it. Things suck. And they're going to get worse before they get better....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Ever since the Season of Transition began, it hasn't escaped the media's attention that President-Elect Barack Obama has been signing up his political...
Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011
McKinnon left the McCain campaign in June after saying he would "not be the tip of the spear" attacking Obama in an advertising campaign.
Washington Post's The Fix | Chris Cillizza | Posted 05.25.2011
Mark McKinnon, the lead media consultant for Sen. John McCain's (Ariz.) presidential bid, is stepping down from that role -- making good on a pledge h...
Texas Monthly | Evan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night I moderated/facilitated a conversation at the Headliner's Club in Austin between old (and still) friends and (possibly future) collaborator...
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
The highlight of the discussion came midway in, when the panelists were tossing around ideas as to why the Republican Party is so much less internet savvy than their Democratic counterparts.
ABC News | Teddy Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
A top adviser to John McCain said Wednesday that he will step down from the Arizona senator's presidential campaign if the presumed GOP nominee faces ...
Jonathan_Miller | Posted 05.11.2012