Thefts are an occasional, sometimes regular, nuisance for artists and craftspeople who sell their work at fairs and festivals, despite the sincere efforts of the event sponsors and the artists themselves to stop them.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.02.2012
"All week! All year! We'll still be here!" "Whose park? Our park!" The chants went up 10, 20, maybe 100 deep shortly before midnight at Zuccott...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.09.2011
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- When the Democratic National Committee picked Charlotte to host its September 2012 convention, city leaders saw it as a boost to th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.26.2011
NEW YORK -- A little more than a month ago, when the occupation of Zuccotti Park was in its early days, the New York City Police Department was not in...
Posted 12.24.2011
By Jessica Firger, Wall Street Journal Occupy Wall Street is an experiment in communal living, with basic human needs on public display. Even, at t...
Jason Salzman | Posted 12.17.2011
Though not ignored by any stretch, the First-Amendment rights of the OccupyDenver protesters need to get more air time. KHOW's Caplis and Silverman aired a great interview with attorney David Lane on this topic yesterday.
Isobel Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011
Expanding midwifery and family planning programs to women across Haiti can yield long-term gains that will benefit all Haitians. Let's give the next generation a chance.
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The sudden, powerful storm that ripped through Haiti's battered capital destroyed thousands of tents in the homeless cam...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — On the six-month anniversary of Haiti's deadly earthquake, President Barack Obama said a rapid international response saved lives b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
A couple weeks ago a reader shared word with the Huffington Post of a tent city in Virginia, about an hour outside of D.C., where tons of middle class...
Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no shortage of bombs in Afghanistan, but there is a lethal shortage of tents in Haiti. The rainy season is fast approaching, with serious dangers of typhoid and dysentery.
Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011
890 million. Amount of international debt that Haiti owes creditors. Finance ministers from developing countries announced they will forgive $290 mi...
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011
Now with parts of Haiti in ruin and perhaps 200,000 people dead, the tree-planting and the soil sampling have halted. But the catastrophe makes it more critical than ever that Haiti be re-greened.
AP | BEN FOX and VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In what's left of one family's home, in what remains of one destroyed neighborhood, Jean-Rene Lochard has retrieved the ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Gala Crum is 21 and pregnant, and living just outside of Washington D.C. in a small tent community, The Washington Post reports. With her tangled br...
Daniel Grant | Posted 04.18.2012