At a "grassroots" rally organized by the American Petroleum Institute in Houston on Tuesday, activists bearing American flags were turned away. Oil co...
Michael Rowe | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
The real cost of Don't Ask, Don't Tell has always been the human one -- Barry Winchell's life, of course, beaten out of him with a baseball bat over the 4th of July weekend 10 years ago.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 08.04.2009 | Entertainment
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! The American flag has been painted on bathing suits, bikinis, and directly on skin like a bathing suit for decades. From movi...
Peter Dreier | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics
Most Americans are unaware that much of our patriotic culture was created by people with decidedly progressive sympathies.
Tom McCaffrey | Posted 04.16.2009 | Comedy
Spring Break '09 showed the lowest amount of drunken women taking off their tops for video cameras ever.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 01.10.2009 | World
What is America? Growing up, I have been able to view the country from several perspectives: Black, female, first-generation American, and a former military child.
Warren Goldstein | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
Like many of you, since Election Night I have found myself frequently moved by the new reality we live in, now that the astonishing words "President-e...
White-Starr | Posted 12.08.2008 | Style
I never thought in my lifetime it would actually be cool to wear an American flag.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
I am old enough to remember when Alaska and Hawaii were added, as the 49th and 50th states (and also old enough to forget which is which).
Jonny 5 | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Adolescents at the time of the 9/11 attacks, their sense of national identity has formed against the "War on Terror." What does patriotism mean to them? Has the political landscape evolved?
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
Flag lapel pins are all the rage these days, but the battle over wearing the flag is older than you may have thought.
Paul Slansky | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Of all the stupid things done by the anti-war crowd, the most gratuitously moronic was allowing the sanctimonious hypocrites of the right to co-opt the nation's most basic icon, its flag.
Gary Hart | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Here's a modest proposal: all of us who support Barack Obama for president should now wear flag pins. This will signal that we are all just as patriotic as anyone on the right.
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be req...
The Wonk Room | Brad Johnson | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics