In the coming days, Perez may well make history, becoming the first openly gay speaker of any state legislature in the United States.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean urged progressives on Sunday to have patience with President Barack Obama, predicting that the White House would pass com...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
With Additional Reporting By Julian Hattem Former DNC Chair Howard Dean called on Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn) to resign as chair of Senate Homela...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
With public outrage over extravagant Wall Street pay packages still simmering, Eliot Spitzer, who pursued overpaid financiers as a prosecutor, went on...
Huff TV | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
Arianna stopped by Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night to talk about the politics behind the Senate's approach to health care reform, includin...
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
One of the leading progressive champions of health care reform is pessimistic about the state of the debate in the Senate, saying he sees virtually no...
Ellen Gill | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Dean said that he thinks the public option should be Medicare, administered by the same agencies and under the same rules as Medicare.
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
You deserve a more articulate answer to the question: just what is the problem?
Will Schwartz | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
What could have swung this mayoral election into a Thompson win?
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
On Friday, I'm taking part in a debate on the question "America's Future: Can Capitalism Survive?" and I'd love to hear what points you think I should make.
gjsentinel.com | GARY HARMON/the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Posted 10.24.2009 | Denver
A Web site operated by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean claims U.S. Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., as a supporter of the public ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
One of the most respected progressive voices on health care reform said on Thursday that he could live with and even support a compromise to the publi...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
Once again, Howard Dean is right and Rahm Emanuel is wrong. What Emanuel doesn't seem to get is that real change is realistic.
Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
Howard Dean panned the health care reform bill currently in the Senate Finance Committee as one that "George Bush would love" because "it's a massive ...
Mike Lux | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
By winning Olympia Snowe over on health care, the White House is risking something far more politically dangerous: an ugly fight within the Democratic Party and further erosion of Obama's standing with his base.
Matt Lewis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
Online success has more to do with passion and intensity than with technological sophistication. And in politics, the outsiders -- not the establishment -- own passion.
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
The president is spending too much political capital on this one issue, health care. It forces the issue. Either a landmark generational bill is passed or failure lurks.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Howard Dean joined Keith Olbermann on "Countdown" tonight to discuss how conservative firebrand Rush Limbaugh is exacerbating racial tensions by tryin...
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
If health care is central and vital to the health and well-being of the nation, then health insurance should be regulated as a utility.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.
Mike Elk | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
I'll never forget what I learned during the campaign: that we could beat any powerful interest in this country if we were just willing to fight hard enough for it.
Ari Melber | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
It does seem like the August doldrums are renewing the progressive appetite for pushing Obama -- even the House Progressive Caucus is starting to channel its inner Evan Bayh and actually threaten to withhold votes.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
For Ted's decades-long fight, and the daily struggle of people like Lennie, a woman who sees her struggle over health care as more horrific than a machete attack, we must pass a "Kennedy Option."
Rick Jacobs | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles