A tale of two presidents. One is president of a country of about 300,000 people - Iceland - a country about the size of Virginia. President Olafur R....
On our country as we now experience it, the febrile intoxication of hope and change has reaped the cold despair of thwarted expectation and bitter frustration.
In the two years running up to the 2008 presidential election, President Barack Obama routinely promised to enact a windfall profits tax on the oil an...
HuffPost's Ryan Grim was on MSNBC Tuesday to discuss, along with conservative journalist Jamie Weinstein, whether Obama is "soft on terror." "I kind...
Over the course of my career, my 7,000 round trips on Amtrak have provided me with an understanding of -- and a respect for -- the role of rail travel in our society and our economy.
We need an education policy that is based on our best current knowledge of learning and teaching. We need to scrap the technocratic model and replace it with a human capital model.
Where were the critics of Obama's Flight 253 handling when it took President Bush six whole days to comment about Richard Reid's failed attempt to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb?
Micah Sifry has written a widely discussed essay about the denuded Obama grassroots movement. But if Obama's online movement was fueled by a myth, then why bemoan its loss?
Right now, the President may appear to have a meager stack of chips in front of him, but it's because his entire bankroll is in the pot. And as it turns out, he's holding a couple of aces.
Apparently, the leap from Silver Screen shindig to White House soiree is pretty seamless these days.
A smart young woman asked my friend, Jennifer, "What would happen if you stopped accepting demands or criticisms from anyone not pulling their weight?"
EPA's proposal to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants is a hacksaw, when the Obama Administration would rather operate with a scalpel.
Conservatives lare focusing on how often President Obama says the word 'terrorism.' Not on his actions. Not on his abilities. But word counting. This is where they want to take our national security debate.
As the political punditry prognosticates of Democratic political disaster this fall, it is well to remember that Democrats have a weapon, the importance of which Washington types don't fully understand.
Maybe we extend the same kind of patience many afford President Obama to Eric Mangini after a season of coaching one of the sorriest franchises in the NFL.
It's time for either some new ideas from across the Atlantic, where "social capitalism" is weathering this storm better than U.S.-style "Wall Street capitalism."
Invasive frisking of the most intimate areas of the human body and revealing full body scans represent from a hardcore Salafi perspective an almost unbearable indignity -- one they will surely relish seeing.
It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.
Do you agree that our political leadership -- across the board -- and our talking heads -- Left and Right, let alone the mainstream media -- are mostly too jaded and/or cowardly to actually speak truth?
In the eyes of most editorial pages and policy wonks, taxing working families' benefits somehow makes more sense than taxing the rich. Has this become the "voodoo economics" of so-called pragmatic moderates and administration economists?
It was a decade framed by a fundamentalist Palestinian belief in salvation through suicide and a fundamentalist Israeli belief in salvation through brutality.
