The War Stampede
After 30 years of war, Afghans do not need more ingenious war efforts by the latest batch of best and brightest in Washington.
After 30 years of war, Afghans do not need more ingenious war efforts by the latest batch of best and brightest in Washington.
Scott de Marchi | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Talk and inaction are relatively cheap for US legislators, since their own health care plan will remain the same whether or not legislation passes. Political ideas need to have a cost.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
When you massively intervene in a country as much as the U.S. has in Afghanistan, you can't responsibly just walk away. We must lead with what works -- development.
Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
The events harnessed an energy similar to Obama's presidential run last year. Like that campaign, J Street came as a breath of fresh air for many who felt they were part of a silenced majority.
Washington Post | Binyamin Appelbaum | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Large banks are on the verge of losing a key legislative battle over the shape of financial reform, an unusual setback that reflects the continued pol...
The New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Thousands of immigrants came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a day of lobbying and an afternoon rally calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Th...
William Bradley | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
We live in a moment of hyperpartisan politics and hyperactive media. These things militate against what the Kennedy eulogies celebrated.
Beth Arnold | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
I discovered that I'd misjudged Ted Kennedy. I hope that now I would have the wisdom to confer more compassion on any and all in tragic circumstances.
Robert R. Hoopes, Jr. | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
We need to push back from the table, unbutton the top button of our collective pants ... and rest.
Erin Green | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Typically, you could tell that Kennedy was coming down the hall because he was grumbling at someone or talking to his large dog, a Portuguese Water Dog named Splash.
Adam Green | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, Third Way -- which claims to be the "moderate wing of the progressive movement" -- proved why they should rebrand themselves "the Think Tank arm of the insurance industry lobby."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
Congressional staffers have been plagued over the past two days with telephone calls that appear to be coming from Senate Majority Harry Reid's office...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
Venerable Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill continues an annual summer tradition this year with the release of their always anticipated "The Hill's Most...
The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's health-care plan is in jeopardy because of serious concerns that costs will spin out of control. As much as anyone, it's Whit...
Toby Barlow | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
So if they won't let you carry a gun in New York but they will in Wyoming, you just go get yourself a gun license in Wyoming, pick up your weapon, conceal it, and head on back to uppity ol' New York.
Congressional Quarterly | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Black aides are so scarce on some House committees that the Congressional Black Caucus surveyed the panels. Their conclusion: black staffers are most ...
Congressional Quarterly | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
As his presidency approaches the half-year mark, Barack Obama is on pace to be the most successful Oval Office occupant in more than half a century wh...
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Obama's self-imposed rule against lobbyists in his administration, and the method whereby he is now implementing his progressive agenda, hews toward a rather perverse irony, if not hypocrisy.
The HIll | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
The good news: You may see nudists next week on Capitol Hill. The bad news: They will be wearing clothes. ...
Politco | Erika Lovley | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style
Nearly 25 percent of Capitol Hill lawmakers have surnames that are hard enough to pronounce that they're listed in the Congressional Quarterly pronunc...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A small, single-engine plane strayed into restricted air space near the U.S. Capitol on Friday, forcing anxious officials to place ...
The Jewish Week | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sworn in on Tuesday as head of a cobbled-together coalition that has produced jitters in Washington, is an old hand...
Harry Hanbury | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
You do not show up to a Congressional fundraiser with a video crew and ask to speak to a member of Congress or their staff. Even just for two minutes. But that's what I did.
Norman Solomon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics