Former Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.), who abruptly stepped down last year after posting a shirtless photo on Craigslist, surprised a local food bank with th...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.24.2012
This year we turn to the Democrats to find the winner of Destined For Political Stardom. If Elizabeth Warren manages to wrest Teddy Kennedy's old Senate seat away from the Republican usurper, she will indeed be on the road to Democratic stardom.
Lee Brenner | Posted 02.15.2012
Think back 50 weeks. Do you remember how 2011 began? Do you remember the epic absurdity that kick-started a year described by nearly everyone as one of the most significant spans in recent memory? That's right: Birds fell straight from the sky.
Posted 12.24.2011
Former New York Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner's decision to resign on June 24 following his admission of inappropriate sexual contact with wom...
Morgan Pehme | Posted 10.19.2011
New Yorkers have shown a much greater interest in addressing gerrymandering than ever before. But there is still a great deal about the current debate that is largely unknown, misunderstood, or unsaid.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 10.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- New York members of the House are keeping the ethics committee awfully busy these days, with yet another member of the delegation being ...
Henry J. Stern | Posted 09.10.2011
With the loss of two New York seats, the question arises: which two districts out of the 31 will be made to disappear by whichever legislative body, independent commission or Federal court ends up drawing the final lines?
Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.08.2011
The rise and ultimate fall of Rep. Anthony Weiner's once-brilliant political career has many elements of a classic Greek tragedy, where the highly ambitious, competent, powerful protagonist suffers a horrible fate.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.07.2011
While people like Anthony Weiner violate their marriages and abuse the trust they have with their wives, they've broken no laws. Their fates belong to their wives, families and to voters -- not to Congress or the media.
Robin Quivers | Posted 08.07.2011
Can anyone tell me why so many famous and powerful men decide not only to take pictures of their private parts but to text, tweet and email them to people? How many men have to be caught before men actually learn from the guys who have gone before?
Henry J. Stern | Posted 08.03.2011
In the Weiner case, it seems bizarre that a man who has devoted his life to ambition and public service should jeopardize that for the pleasure of sending relative strangers a photograph.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 07.24.2011
Voters in New York's 26th congressional district are casting their votes today in a special election to replace Rep. Chris Lee (R), who resigned earli...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
There are two major impediments to Paladino's electoral ambitions. First, he's screwed over a lot of the people who worked on his gubernatorial campaign. And second, his major accomplishment as a candidate has been to remind people that he's a huge, huge jerk.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.), the congressman who stepped down last month after Gawker reported that he had posted shirtless pictures of himself on ...
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
This week's show heard sharp differences on the federal budget standoff and an epic battle in Wisconsin. Was the prank call from "Koch" to Walker a smoking gun?
Posted 05.25.2011
Gawker is adding another twist in the trials and tribulations of former Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) Friday, with a report that two D.C.-area transgender w...
Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Dealing with government offices is already difficult enough, and this burgeoning trend of vanity resignations primarily works to throw more wrenches into the process.
Posted 05.25.2011
Former Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.), the congressman who resigned last week after a Gawker report surfaced showing that he had sent a shirtless picture of ...
Robert Hoopes | Posted 05.25.2011
Historically, the budget process ultimately has resolved without too much controversy or consequence for either side of the political aisle. That is about to change.
Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011
There once was a rep named Chris Lee Whose bod none of us cared to see He showcased his pecs (More cut than Glenn Beck's) Guess he won't run for term ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Yesha Callahan, the woman on the other end of the Craiglist correspondence with former Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.), has gone on the record with her story,...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
While Egypt's future is uncertain, the feeling of optimism among the people who succeeded in demanding change is palpable today. It wouldn't surprise me if February 11th becomes an Egyptian national holiday in the future.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.), who resigned Wednesday after a report surfaced showing that he had sent a shirtless picture of himself in response to ...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Christopher Lee of western New York abruptly resigned with only a vague explanation of regret after a gossip website reported that the married co...
Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) announced early Wednesday evening that he will resign his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Buffalo-based station Y...
The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 04.06.2012