Obama Weekly Radio Address: What Still Needs To Be Done (VIDEO)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this...
Jeff Cohen | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
From the stimulus to health care, Obama's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives on his way to corrupt legislation and frantic efforts to compromise for the votes of corporate Democrats or "moderate" Republicans.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.25.2009 | Sports
Congresswoman Maxine Waters recently joined me on my radio show. The interview was primarily focused on the NFL Congressional Hearing and her questioning Commissioner Roger Goodell. See what she said.
Adam Shapiro | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
My old friend Tom Perriello, I am afraid, has become like so many of his colleagues, a mere tool of a hard-right AIPAC agenda that has no business dictating American policy, as it did with the Goldstone resolution.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Republicans are poised to cement their complete opposition to everything Obama and reap a huge political win by twisting their political principles to oppose further escalation of troops in Afghanistan.
nytimes.com | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
Representative Ron Paul of Texas won committee approval of a far-reaching amendment that would give Congress vast new authority over the Federal Reser...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
President Obama has said he would sign legislation overturning the ban on gays in the military. Here's a roadmap to make sure that happens in 2010.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
When members of the House and Senate return home, they will probably face the wrath they did last summer in town hall meetings. It is not anger aimed towards one party, or one president.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Let's look at the poker hand we've been dealt on health care reform. Democrats have now officially gone from "pot committed" to "all in." The stakes, to be blunt, have been raised until they are as high as they can go.
Richard Walden | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
If the current legislation fails to curb costs or vastly increase access to care, it should be scrapped and a full on national, or even state by state, health care plan substituted in its place.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
The American debt as a percentage of GDP is at around 100%, which is expected to edge up to 101% in 2011, then begin to drop. However, Japan's debt as a percentage of GDP will go to 230%!
New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.'s on terms that seem too good to be...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
Peer-to-peer software, by itself, did not cause the confidential Congressional document to be leaked to the press. Certainly people are not perfect and some data breaches will still occur even with better policies and technology.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
In a blow to the far-right, the premier scientific panel advising the Defense Department has concluded that U.S. nuclear weapons don't need new tests or new designs.
Norman Goldman | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
We need corporate reform by way of requiring all shareholders to approve all pay of all executives at all publicly traded corporations. Only then will this looting insanity end.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Comm...
Jim Jaffe | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Congress is moving at a pace that can fairly be characterized as astonishingly fast to slash the number of Americans who lack health insurance by more than half.
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.
David Sullivan | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
The introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act means Congo activists have bipartisan legislation percolating in the Capitol, which could cut armed groups and rights abusers out of the supply chain for our cell phones and laptops.
Ari Melber | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
Tt just got a little easier out here for a blogger. The smart folks at Harvard's Citizen Media Law Project are launching a program of free legal services for online and citizen media.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.
Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver
I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.
Edwin D. Hill | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
It didn't take long for the anti-worker far right to try to spin the results of the 2009 elections as a mandate for their pro-corporate agenda.
Frank Sharry | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The 2010 Census will have a profound effect on the U.S. political landscape. An astonishing number of states will owe new Congressional seats, in large part, to their new Latino constituents.
AP/ The Huffington Post | By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics