Left, Right & Center: 9/11 Trials, Afghanistan, Asia, Job Summit, Fort Hood
What will Obama do in Afghanistan? Without jobs, can Democrats win the next round of elections? And a second look at the Fort Hood massacre.
What will Obama do in Afghanistan? Without jobs, can Democrats win the next round of elections? And a second look at the Fort Hood massacre.
Noam Biale | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
This year's prize is a recognition not just of nine months of leadership, but of a generation of civil rights struggle that culminated in November's election.
Laura Chapin | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
Ron Brownstein has written a cautionary tale and sound advice to Democrats who might get complacent over the blue tide sweeping the Rockies.
Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media
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.
AP | BRIAN BAKST | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The pile of unopened absentee ballots that could be counted for Minnesota's delayed Senate contest between Al Franken and Norm...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Is it curious that the Republicans suddenly remembered that they're against government spending at the same moment that a guy with a "D" after his name moved into the White House?
Karl Frisch | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
Just shy of a week after Obama took the oath of office, there's a new tome out by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.
Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
I am so enormously turned off by all the emails I keep getting from the Obama "campaign" asking me for more money! What are they going to do with this money?
Christine Pelosi | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
With a stroke of his pen, Barack Obama will soon change America's priorities - spending the equivalent of 40 days in Iraq to provide health care for over 10 million children a year.
Neg Norton | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
The political campaigns did not shy away from the tried and true; the 30-second television ad, the direct mail flyer, yard signs, bumper stickers are alive and well.
Brian Normoyle | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics
Coleman's earlier admonishments about healing quickly and sparing taxpayer dollars have given way to a stubborn refusal to be a man of his word.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
This year, the Ohio Secretary of State is Democrat Jennifer Brunner... Brunner repeatedly went to court to defend an expanded right to vote and have as many votes counted as possible.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
You would think that winning the White House and overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress would instill some backbone into Democrats on Capitol Hill. You would, of course, be wrong.
Michael Markarian | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics
The NRA spent millions supporting John McCain for President and trying to tarnish the image of Barack Obama, and have little to show for it, given that Obama won swing states where the NRA was most active.
James Zogby | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
None of the Muslim-bashing during this political season dissuaded Arab Americans and American Muslims from playing a significant role in the elections, from the presidential contest to state and local races.
Erica Heller | Posted 12.27.2008 | Style
Thursday promises the same humdrum cavalcade of Thanksgiving foods for all: turkey, stuffing, cranberries, yams and pumpkin pie. But what really belongs on the menu of these notables this year?
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Of course people always want to know if the children of LGBT parents are more likely to grow up to become gay or lesbian themselves. The answer is no.
ProPublica | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
Minnesota has gotten unusually high marks from experts for its record of election oversight. The recount will test how well Minnesota's procedures hold up under the closest scrutiny.
Brandon Friedman | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
The military communities that have paid the most in time and lives lost over the past seven years have moved considerably away from both Bush's policies and McCain's attempts to extend them.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
We have had a virtual news blackout on what is going on in the two states we're waiting for -- Missouri's presidential results, and Alaska's senatorial results. Here is what I managed to find out.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points. Of course, the big question on everyone's mind right now is: What is going on up in Minnesota? Al Franken is t...
Rob Richie | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
My colleagues and I developed this analysis over the past couple days. Highlights include * The Electoral College landscape of true swing states in f...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
The Republican Party falsely accused Obama of hastening the genocide of the Jewish people -- while Sen. Lieberman gave this strategy his seal of approval by campaigning for McCain.
Brian Normoyle | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
The President-Elect flipped eight Bush states to the blue column and managed to get two states to elect a Democrat for President for the first time in nearly half a century.
Mort Gerberg | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Read more reaction from HuffPost bloggers to Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election...
Huff Radio | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics