Accepting people for who they are seems to me to be what Christmas ought to be about. As a nation, we still aren't doing that with gay men and women in the military services.
Instead of sending more "Kill the Bill" emails, we need to turn our attention now to leaders in the House, insisting they stick to their guns and improve on what the Senate has passed.
Obama's victory ahead in signing major health care legislation would have been cleaner, stronger, better with Ted Kennedy at his side.
In Senator Kennedy's absence, there is no one with his credibility, experience, and stature to make the last compromise on health care reform and persuade his liberal allies not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I know Western Queens, having lived in Astoria and Long Island City. I am intimately familiar with Woodside and Sunnyside. Many of my friends live...
After taking more time off than George Bush ever did, Congress finds itself at the year's end with a whole stack of things to accomplish. Which results in a frenzy of things getting passed, or at least debated.
I was in the voting booth Tuesday night in Massachusetts. Usually I have managers and agents, but this day I wasn't prepared for no one telling me what to do.
In the interview I did with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley last month, she expressed the unabashed truth about the health care debate o...
Huckabee is disgusted by some in the pundit business -- many on the right -- who are attacking his clemency decision. One wonders if he should also be disgusted by his own pundit remarks following Ted Kennedy's death.
On Dec. 8, Massachusetts voters will have a rare opportunity to elect one of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs to Congress. Alan Khazei,...
I'm proud that Bennet has gone to bat for our veterans by co-sponsoring the "Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act," which will expand a program that encourages our veterans to become teachers.
For the first time in over a decade, with the swing of a pen, President Obama turned his back on the right wing's ridiculous rhetoric by doing the right thing, and signing the Hate Crimes Bill.
Jane Hamsher attributes nefarious motives to our health care reform effort and the resulting legislation. I fiercely disagree. It was carefully shaped to save lives and reduce costs.
Many know how natural it is to go ballistic when we realize we've been duped. When we lose our way, it is all too easy to place hopes for happiness onto the outer world, for fame, money, things.
A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.
How will the recession morph readers? What are the uncommon indicators of the recession -- or recovery from it -- that seem to go unnoticed?
The impact of Obama's election stretches far beyond even what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "fierce urgency of now." It goes beyond race and beyond policy issues.
I do not know whom Senator Kennedy would have liked to have his seat. But I know that no one will work harder to fight for the values that I grew up with than Alan Khazei.
Vidal holidayed with the Kennedys, cruised for men with Tennessee Williams, was urged to run for Congress by Eleanor Roosevelt, and co-wrote some of the most iconic Hollywood films.
The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.
What happens if health care comes up for a vote and Byrd is simply too sick to be wheeled in?
