Renegade and Dreams of My Absent Father
Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.
Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Elections have consequences: we voted for universal health care and intend to get it done.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
In her short campaign as the GOP Vice Presidential candidate in the 2008 Presidential election it seems that Sarah Palin got addicted to the spotlight of national politics.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media
Just because the black guy won in November doesn't mean election fraud, voter suppression, and systematic disenfranchisement is gone.
Maegan Carberry | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media
With respect to bipartisanship, is hope lost, or is a seed planted that will continue to grow into 2010, 2012, 2016?
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
The Women's Media Center was packed with women active in old and new media, advocacy, and culture.
Max Keiser | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
In the lead up to the US elections less than a year ago, protesters gathered at the party conventions. The police were waiting for them.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Our leaders have all morphed in to one large, non-identified, political animal that proports to stand for something but has ended up standing for very little at all.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
Linking up with rail makes perfect sense for a contracting industry, at a time when environmental and economic factors make expanding public transit a necessity.
Erik Ose | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
It was one year ago today that Hillary Clinton announced plans to suspend her campaign for the Democratic nomination, and urged her supporters to unite behind Barack Obama.
David Parker | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy
Eric Alterman | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media
Dowd's accident is yet another sign of how traditional media outlets are increasingly (and to their credit) taking cues from the reporters and commentators that populate the blogosphere.
Rick Shenkman | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
Misinformation is as apt to be swallowed by people as factual information. More troubling, voters don't seem to know where to turn for reliable information.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — One out of every four military personnel and other Americans living abroad may have been thwarted in their efforts to vote in the 2...
Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
Applications to study in the US are up 30 percent in the Nordic countries, and interest in Sweden has grown by 20 percent. Placement agencies are calling it "Obama fever."
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Local counties wasted millions of dollars in cumbersome, error-ridden voter registration processes in the 2008 election, a new study finds. A survey...
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Norm Coleman has gone from a man of infinite phony-baloney social charm to a demanding, insistent, miserably drunk guest who doesn't know when to leave.
Steven Shehori | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
The truth however, is that despite Prop 8, gay marriage has been embraced in California since that first studio exec flew business class out of the Earth's primordial goo four billion years ago.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
Why the hell is this populist, boastful ignorance being actively encouraged and exploited by conservative corporate lobbyists, Fox News and, indeed, the Republican Party?
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
There is some trepidation among Democrats as to whether an issue as thorny as immigration might distract from this year's debate on health care, energy and education.
Jacob Soboroff | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, goes the expression. Well, according to the New York Times, the American voting system is broken. So let's fix it. Fo...
Al Petrone | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Science tells us the earth is over 4.7 billion years old, with all of modern history and human civilization only occurring within the last 5,000 to 10...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics
How is it possible to disprove anything more thoroughly than Supply Side economics, and all its attendant Laissez Faire excesses, have been disproved,...
Senate Guru | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
The legal teams have made their closing arguments and the trial has concluded as the three-judge panel will now deliberate for, likely, a period of weeks to determine who won the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress could really use a lesson in the art of politics from President Obama. They have handed the Republicans a legitimate issue to complain about, and there isn't a single good reason for it.
Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media