The climate change bill that squeaked through the House just before recess doesn't have a chance in the Senate, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said Tue...
Bill Scher | Posted 07.01.2009 | Green
Some senators are acting as if Reps. Waxman and Markey hadn't painstakingly pieced a compromise with those sympathetic to coal companies, power companies and agribusiness.
St. Louis Post Dispatch | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Looks like Missouri U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill will have to wait for another chance to burnish her courtroom skills. McCaskill, a former prosecutor i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) laid out the battle over health care reform in simple terms on Tuesday. "There's serious money made in health care in ...
AP | Jake Tapper | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator on Tuesday joined Republicans in questioning President Barack Obama's firing of the internal watchdog for the ...
AP | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Union Pacific Railroad and the state of Illinois announced an agreement Friday to assess what must be done to operate both freight a...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media
John Kerry's Senate Committee hearing on the future of journalism evidently turned into a bunch of self-congratulatory wanking about how important newspapers are to our American way of life.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
The central debate dominating discussions of a possible investigation into torture by the Bush administration seems to have shifted sharply in the pas...
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
Forget Seattle and Berkeley. When it comes to deciding America's energy future, it's place like Akron and Pittsburgh, St Louis and Detroit that deserve the spotlight right now.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Sunday's New York Times called on Congress to impeach federal judge Jay Bybee over his now infamous role in authoring one of the Bush administration m...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics
So today marked the beginning and, hopefully, the end, of Twitterviewing. As much as I enjoy Twitter, it is a medium that is fantastically incompatib...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Sen. Claire McCaskill said Sunday she was unsure whether she and her fellow Democrats had the votes needed to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, durin...
Ramya Raghavan | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
They say that two heads are better than one -- what about leveraging hundreds, even thousands of heads, to come up with solutions to today's most pres...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
Al Gore, it's not really kosher Twitter etiquette to have 160,000+ people on your list and then only be interested in what two of them are tweeting.
Ari Herzog | Posted 02.25.2009 | Media
About half a dozen members of Congress (from both political parties) thumbed their iPhones and BlackBerries and twittered while President Obama spoke about the economy and technology.
Washington Post | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
President Obama spoke of economic calamity and war last night in that solemn rite of democracy, the address to the joint session of Congress. And lawm...
Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
The stimulus debate, or lack thereof, proved beyond a doubt that forward-thinking individuals must join the netroots-driven political realignment happening across America to have meaningful impact.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
Truth be told, it's actually been kind of a "talking points week" for me this week. On Monday, I wrote about how the Democrats need to frame the stim...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics
What is it with shoes this week? First we had the sale of Sarah Palin's "Double Dare" Naughty Monkey shoes on eBay. And now someone has erected a sta...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics
Sen. Claire McCaskill has delivered a sharp threat to the wallets of corporate executives who took large compensation packages even as their companies...
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 01.27.2009 | Green
When it comes to the geography of climate politics, it doesn't break down along the much-ballyhooed "red state/blue state" divide.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?
David Corn | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
As the manager of Obama's campaign, Plouffe steered the best-run presidential campaign in years. He efficiently matched man, message, money, and machine.
Dan Sweeney | Posted 09.29.2008 | Home
My weekly print column, Danation, usually takes a somewhat local bent, making it meaningful to only a slim percentage of HuffPo readers. But Barack Ob...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home
A small and inaccurate story aired last week by a local St. Louis television station that was on its way to being forgotten was given new life over the weekend by the Republican spin machine.
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HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.08.2009 | Green