What is Patriotism?
Patriotism has been reduced to wearing flag lapel pins and adorning bumper stickers that read: "I Support the Troops." Where is the courage that exemplifies the spirit of 1776?
Patriotism has been reduced to wearing flag lapel pins and adorning bumper stickers that read: "I Support the Troops." Where is the courage that exemplifies the spirit of 1776?
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
The other day a friend mentioned his drug of choice for an upcoming flight: Anxiety pill Xanax. When I asked if he was afraid of flying, he said no, he was afraid of checking in.
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Fundamentally, the centuries-long battle between Progressives and the right wing has been a struggle between empowerment and domination.
Leslie Harris | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
The new FISA bill makes U.S. citizens' most private conversations when communicating with people abroad rendered more vulnerable to eavesdropping without adequate judicial oversight. Some in Congress see this as a compromise.
New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It wa...
Ben Cohen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media
Matt Taibbi: "I think there was a lot of real anger there and I got caught up in that, I think unfairly because I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthrope."
Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
The world's grievances with the US have little to do with its history of slavery. Most of the world is more concerned with how America treats other ethnicities, beyond black.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
In responding to Senator Barack Obama's stance on the phenomenally ineffective detainee program at Guantanamo Bay, McCain campaign Foreign Policy Advi...
Ray Hanania | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Apparently for many people, "patriotism" and "being an American" is all about anger more than it is about pride. I say that as a casual observation. ...
Robert Scheer | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Yep, he did it; Bush's deliberate roiling of world politics is the key variable in the run-up of oil prices. No president has done more to destablize the politics of oil-producing countries.
Stacy Sullivan | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
No matter how hard Bush tries to sell these arraignments as a great day for justice, it can't spin the Guantanamo courtroom spectacle into a fair judicial process worthy of the victims of September 11, 2001.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
The Great Republican Disaster, from Reagan to Bush the Lesser, has been the Time of the Unreal. Recently there have been signs of hope. Yes. Hope means Obama. He speaks of reality.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Nothing about Mohammed Hashim's story suggests that he should be standing trial in a court flagged up by the administration as required to prosecute "the worst of the worst."
Matt Littman | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Sen. Biden's first priority is our veterans: You will never -- never -- see our returning troops treated as miserably as they have been under Bush-Cheney if he is vice president.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Note: I wrote this post back on April 1 of this year. Initially, after thinking that the Jeremiah Wright situation would resolve itself (finally), I s...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
It's shocking to see the scale of the site and the lack of progress in turning it into -- anything. It's still a giant hole, which only serves to remind you what is missing there besides the twin towers.
Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.
Charlie Rose | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
msnbc.com | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
A woman calling 911 to report a possible break-in was in for some surprising customer service. After explaining her predicament, she spent the next mi...
Washington Post | Robin Shulman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, cannot be held liable for assuring residents near the burning detritus...
AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden's chief deputy in an audiotape Tuesday accused Shiite Iran of trying to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida terror netwo...
Andy Worthington | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
In what appears to be nothing more than propaganda masquerading as news, the US military has announced that it will televise the Guantánamo trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
Perhaps Obama might better strengthen his image of having a handle on national security issues by not sounding so much like the disgraceful, incompetent Condoleezza Rice.
Today, Barack Obama posted a message to supporters on my.barackobama.com about the...
US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! In honor of the great American holiday, Huffington Post has pulled together...
I've been running VoteVets.org for a couple of years now. In 2006 and in...
Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, two writers from Jezebel.com were invited to appear on my show, Thinking...
Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly...
Lee Grivas, the 26-year-old boyfriend of Christina Applegate, was found dead in...
From Media Matters: On the July 2 edition of MSNBC's Verdict, during the...
Today the New York Times reports on a jaw-dropping addition to the medical spa trend. Now comes...
Even with the GOP convention nearly two months away, some in the Republican...
PARIS — A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people...
The bottom-up political movement that Barack Obama has been so fervently encouraging may have come too...
Byron Williams | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics