On New Years, we tend to make resolutions which are usually promises to do something "more, better, or different" as our society seems to revolve arou...
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living
Pull up a chair and settle in while I spin a yarn about 2008. The story actually begins 20 years into the future (visualize a clock advancing rapidly...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment
Let's discuss certain scenes, moments, character beats, and what-not that worked in 2008, regardless of the quality of the films that contained them.
Daniel Kurtzman | Posted 01.27.2009 | Politics
In a story about potential vice presidential picks, the AP referred to Joe Lieberman as "the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000."
The Huffington Post | Dan Duray | Posted 01.27.2009 | Entertainment
It's been a great year for YouTube. It's officially a vital campaign tool, and there's still no shortage of goofy comedy videos. Below we've compil...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
Love her or hate her, you have to admit that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket this year was without any doubt the boldest political tactic of the year.
Jason Mannino | Posted 01.26.2009 | Living
A client of mine got laid off six months ago from a very lucrative position that offered him leadership and creative responsibility. Following the lay...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.24.2009 | Media
I can already predict an email complaining that Bill O'Reilly doesn't make this list. It seems to me that some examples of stupidity are far too ubiquitous to be remarkable.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.24.2009 | Media
It's the end of the year, and so I must answer the call for summative listicles of things. So, why not a list of stuff I liked that people in the mass media did this year? Okay!
Network 20/20 | Posted 01.23.2009 | Home
During a trip to Pakistan, Network 20/20 conducted more than 60 interviews with everyone from shop owners to militants. Here is what we heard about democracy, God and the Pakistani government.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Welcome to our annual awards! For the past three years, this column has paid homage (translation: "ripped off their gimmick") to the McLaughlin Group...
Samara O'Shea | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style
Christmas is all about faith, love, and joy -- not bad entities at all but a tall order to express -- whereas the New Year encompasses fresh beginnings and hope.
Johann Hari | Posted 01.17.2009 | World
It should be part of everyone's New Year routine to ask: Who did we overrate in '08, and who didn't get their due? These are my proposals.
Miles Klee | Posted 01.17.2009 | Home
Each year, best-of lists pass over countless hypotheticals in favor of people, events and things that actually happened. Which is so uncool and maybe ...
Brandon Perkins | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment
Is 2008 over yet? For most of this country, it seems as if this year ended on November 4th, on the heels of that historic election. Here are my favorite threads of a year that's been over for a month already.
Erin Medlicott | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has named longtime aide to Sen. Joe Biden, Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman, to fill the U.S. Senate seat Biden will be vacating for the vice presidency.
Erin Medlicott | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama today named Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. as the next U.S. Attorney General. He has accepted the position, pending a Senate approval.
Erik Ose | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
With the post-election analysis season almost over, it's worth taking one final look at some of the characters who ensured President-elect Obama would make it to the White House.
Will Bower | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.
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...
Erik Ose | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Despite voting with George W. Bush 94.4% of the time, this fall Calvert distributed mailers without a single mention that he belonged to the Republican party, proclaiming himself "An Independent."
Erik Ose | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama's victory does not spell the end of racial disparity in America, but it is a ringing sign of progress, a triumph on the road to greater equality and realizing the Dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. revealed to us.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
About the Cartoonist | Reprint Policy Because it's Election Day, I'm not going to give a detailed analysis of the past week's polls, as I...
Erik Ose | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Banking base voters early is now allowing the Obama campaign to focus its energy in the home stretch on independent and undecided voters.
AP | SARAH LARIMER | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
MIAMI — With two days remaining until Election Day, Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs told voters in South Florida not to be scared away from the pol...
Christine Hassler | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living