The Wages of Fear: Alibis and Lies
Had it been a Christian or a Jew who slaughtered thirteen people in one mad frenzy, I doubt there would have been much psycho-analysis of the murderer and his motives. It was a ghastly criminal act, period.
Had it been a Christian or a Jew who slaughtered thirteen people in one mad frenzy, I doubt there would have been much psycho-analysis of the murderer and his motives. It was a ghastly criminal act, period.
The Plum Line | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney's national security group want her to know that they're not ...
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.
Gary Hart | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
The more plausible alternative in Afghanistan is to resume the original limited mission, the one that took us there eight long years ago.
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Now more than ever, Americans need to trust our own judicial system to fully and openly prosecute the mass murderers of 9/11 while the rest of the world bears witness.
Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
If this summer was the coming out party for the electric car, Washington was the host. They may seem unlikely bedfellows, but I'm convinced the EV companies have learned how to play politics.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Project Syndicate | George Soros | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
NEW YORK -- Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundame...
Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
One year after Obama was elected we asked HuffPost readers to compare Obama the candidate to the Obama the President. Has he lived up to his promises...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Barbara Lee gained international acclaim for being the only member in Congress who courageously voted against the authorization of the use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Alexia Parks | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact
If crisis offers an opportunity for rapid change, then Copenhagen is an opportunity that is ripe for Obama's global leadership.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
The current status-quo in the Middle East must be disturbed before conditions are right for the next round of Middle East diplomacy.
Lance Simmens | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Mr. Vice-President, you and your President had eight full years to chart a direction for this nation. That direction was soundly rejected by the voters in the most recent national election.
Los Angeles Times | Tom Petruno | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
Former President Bill Clinton says the Bush administration made a mistake allowing Lehman Bros. to fail -- and that the calamity that resulted from Le...
Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
A new report suggests that the the Bush administration's hard push to preempt state anti-predatory lending laws may have added fuel to the fire of the...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago
Big Business is not as interested in making big plans or big money with big ideas as they are in blaming Washington for all that ultimately ails you.
Steven Hill | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
This week saw two showdowns between Europe and the US that have revealed further slippage in American global leadership. The very structure of the American political system is at the heart of these failures.
Gary Hart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
The national security state has become a kind of powerful prison with the president as warden. He has authority over it, but he cannot escape it.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
For Chris Wallace to imply that the Obama team is any tougher on the media than, say, the Bush administration, is an absolute joke.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
They say the best offense is a good defense. Our only real defense against right wing insanity is to put them on the defense and keep them there.
Los Angeles Times | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC,...
Susan Kane | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
As millions of kids headed back to school this month, many parents, teachers, and administrators had a lot to think about. Things like, will there actually be enough seats in the ballooning classes?
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.
Talking Points Memo | Ben Frumin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
We've obtained an exclusive excerpt from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's autobiography "True Compass" -- which goes on sale today -- in which the Massachu...
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics