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Will Romney Go Beyond Fox News In General Election?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.24.2012

NEW YORK -- When Mitt Romney addressed donors at a private campaign fundraiser on April 15, the presumptive Republican nominee described Fox News view...

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New Republic Changes Top Editor

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.20.2012

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NEW YORK -- Franklin Foer is returning as editor of the New Republic, the first major shake-up at the political magazine since Facebook co-founder Chr...

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Reporters Blocked At Romney Event

The Huffington Post | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.16.2012

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Several reporters covering Mitt Romney described being blocked from a rope line on Wednesday and prevented from asking the candidate questions at a St...

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Special Needs Motherhood: Are You Mom Enough?

Laura Rossi Totten | Posted 05.15.2012

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We may practice attachment parenting (or not), we may chose the bottle over the breast, but we are all bound by the fact that we never, ever feel like we can do enough for our special needs child(ren).

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Why The Washington Post Held Romney Prep School Story In Print

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.10.2012

NEW YORK -- The Washington Post's Jason Horowitz shook up the political world Thursday morning with a deeply reported story about Mitt Romney's prep s...

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Al Qaeda Magazine Returns, Recommends Forest Fires As Next Great Terror Innovation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.03.2012

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When we last left the genius who apparently thought that what al Qaeda's global death cult needed most was to embark on a print media enterprise, he w...

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Romney Woos Conservative Media In Private Meeting

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.03.2012

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NEW YORK -- In an effort to reach out to conservative media, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney and wife Ann met for two hours Wednesday with ...

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News Orgs Resist Romney Campaign Deciding Press Pool Members

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.02.2012

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NEW YORK -- News organizations pushed back Wednesday after Mitt Romney's campaign decided the website BuzzFeed should be excluded from a rotating pres...

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Openly Gay Romney Spokesman Resigns After Two Weeks

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.02.2012

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Richard Grenell, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's controversial choice for national security spokesman, is leaving the campaign less...

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Inside The 2012 Twitter-Fueled News Cycle

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.27.2012

NEW YORK -- When Pierre Prosper, a foreign policy adviser to presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, accused President Barack Obama Thursda...

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Sandra Fluke Responds To Fox News Pundit's Offensive Comment

Posted 04.27.2012

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Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke responded to Fox News pundit Monica Crowley's tweet on Thursday, saying she was disturbed by the conser...

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NBC Miami Reporter Fired Over Edited Zimmerman 911 Call

Posted 04.26.2012

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A veteran NBC Miami reporter has been fired in the ongoing probe over an edited "Today" show clip of George Zimmerman's 911 call, placed moments befor...

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Study: Romney Gets More Positive Press Coverage Than Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.23.2012

NEW YORK -- During the past several months of the Republican primary campaign, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney received a mix of positive and nega...

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First Week: A Ragged Start, and Obama's Real Problems

William Bradley | Posted 04.14.2012

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After Rick Santorum's sudden withdrawal essentially handed the Republican nomination to Mitt Romney, on the 100th anniversary of Titanic setting sail on its fateful voyage, President Barack Obama had a mostly good week.

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How Bloomberg Broke The Washington Post's Santorum Scoop

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.10.2012

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NEW YORK -- The political news cycle kicked into overdrive Tuesday afternoon when Bloomberg News staffers began tweeting that Rick Santorum was leavin...

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Sunday Show Host: 'We Try Every Week' To Book Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer sat down with two Republican presidential candidates last Sunday, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, and h...

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The Real Game Change: Palinism's Rise, Moderate Republicanism's Eclipse

William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

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The term "game change," like so many sports-oriented terms in politics, is decidedly over-used. But the events depicted in the Game Change film really do constitute just that, though not in the way that my friend Steve Schmidt intended it.

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Joseph Kony and the Other Africa

Paul Stoller | Posted 05.19.2012

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So Africa is not a country and Africans don't speak "African." What about the most pernicious stereotype -- that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending famine, "Africans" are powerless and need our help?

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Journalist Recounts Fleeing Syrian City Under Fire

AP | RODRIGO ABD | Posted 05.13.2012

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ANTAKYA, Turkey — Explosions illuminated the night as we ran, hoping to escape Syria after nearly three weeks of covering a conflict that the go...

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As Company Is Collapsing, GateHouse Media Awards $1.4 Million in Bonuses

Randy Turner | Posted 05.13.2012

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Only a few short weeks after announcing a centralization of layout and copy editing that will cost jobs at its more than 300 newspapers across the nation, GateHouse Media revealed it has awarded hefty bonuses to its top four executives.

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Inside The New Republic's First Meeting Under New Ownership

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.09.2012

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NEW YORK -- On the morning of March 9, Chris Hughes held his first meeting with the staff of the New Republic, the nearly century-old magazine of Amer...

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Did HBO's 'Game Change' Borrow From Palin Bio?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.07.2012

NEW YORK -- After concluding her debate with now-Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming HBO movie "Game Change," Sarah Palin tells John McCain's cam...

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NY Times Slams Bloomberg Over NYPD Muslim Spying

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.04.2012

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NEW YORK -- The New York Times harshly criticized the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program in a Sunday editorial, while taking particular aim at Mayor ...

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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.04.2012

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Today, Chris Wallace will chat with Rick Santorum, for whom few things have gone right, about Super Tuesday. And then Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal will yell at each other about Iran. Also, the Washington Caucus thingy happened, and Mitt Romney won.

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Michael Hastings, McChrystal Profile Writer, To Cover Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 02.27.2012

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NEW YORK -- The election of Barack Obama was a compelling story, with a little-known, first-term senator emerging in the tough Democratic primary to b...

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