Thank You for (Not) Running for President
In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.
In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.
Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and perennial big thinker in the Republican party, said this morning that he will likely run for president in ...
Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Three senators are working on the bill behind closed doors. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) sits at the head of a wooden table at hi...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy
Joe Wilson (R-SC), tennis legend Serena Williams and recording artist Kanye West held a press conference in Washington, DC today to kick off the first annual National Outburst Week.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
For Chief Justice John Roberts, the arrival of a new Supreme Court justice is "to some extent .... unsettling." Justice Roberts, a relative newcomer ...
Greg Palast | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
When Cheney was caught having secret meetings with oil companies, we denounced it as a case of foxes in the henhouse. But Obama's secret meetings, he assures us, are in the public interest.
Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The nation's armed forces are stretched thin, very thin. Repeal of DADT is a national security issue, first and last.
Beth Borzone | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Lots of people are disappointed with some of Obama's recent decisions but they still love him because he is a person of conviction working within a flawed system.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media
So, with Twitter somewhere betwtixt the "So Hot Right Now" and "Backlash To The Whole Premise Of Whether It Is Now Or Has Ever Been Hot" stages, it's ...
AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will release audio tapes soon after the April 29 argument over a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act. ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media
Everywhere you looked Thursday, HuffPost was being mentioned on the tube. From "Entertainment Tonight" to "Countdown," "Ugly Betty" to "30 Rock," Ja...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media
We have news of some activity at today's meeting of the Republican National Committee at the Capitol Hill Club, part of a continuing effort to determi...
Norman Solomon | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
Reminiscent of 1965, the tenet that we must send additional troops to Afghanistan is axiomatic in U.S. news media, on Capitol Hill and -- as far as can be discerned -- at the top of the incoming administration.
William Klein | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media
Just off their mostly news-free coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, the major news networks have directed their correspondents to refrain from traditional news and stick to glitz.
R.W. Sanders | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
In my fifth decade of life, I thought very little could excite me. And I had not the vaguest idea that I would help make history. And I didn't even have to leave my house!
Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
As we watch the debates on CNN, we too are influenced by the response lines, and after the debate is over, the influence of these small groups increases disproportionately.
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...
Paul Peete | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
As I watched the speeches and the various events unfold throughout the day on C-Span, I could enjoy the event free of the inane anchor comments that endlessly fill the airwaves.
Tony Sachs | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
It was nice to see John Kerry as angry at George Bush and John McCain as Democrats have been at John Kerry the last four years.
Beverly Davis | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
Stay tuned! Rest assured there's more "election coverage" coming at you from one of the many "best political teams" on television. My advice: Switch to C-Span.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
Maybe we are not interested in learning this stuff, or maybe TV is just the wrong medium for transmitting serious information.
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media