Liberal denial gives silent permission to authoritarian aggression and violence by our government. The bogeyman has shifted from communism to terrorism, but the dynamics remain the same.
ProPublica | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica President Obama appeared to rule out issuing an executive order to establish indefinite detention Thursday, nearly a week...
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
I remember as a child that whenever the 4th of July rolled around, I would try earnestly to reflect on the significance of the holiday. That is not an...
Sam Chaltain | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
It is possible -- indeed, essential -- for schools to find the right organizational balance between individual freedom and group structure.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
So, here's the story: The Obama administration wants to close Guantanamo Bay. But Congress is filled with people who either inanely claim that housin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
My advice to Sarah Palin would be to do as the old ad copy said: Never let them see you sweat. Don't get involved in a land war with David Letterman.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
One of the surest clues to the abuse of power is when state officials start inventing new words to describe their own actions.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics
Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.
Leslie Harris | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
U.S. cybersecurity efforts remain a patchwork of uncoordinated and conflicting policies, procedures and processes.
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media
Wikipedia should reverse its Scientology ruling rather than set a precedent of discrimination that will only grow more dangerous as our lives move online.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.19.2009 | Living
Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.
Norman Solomon | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Harman provides a particularly spectacular example of an officeholder who has boosted militarism while helping to undermine civil liberties and human rights.
Monika Kalra Varma | Posted 04.29.2009 | World
Every contemporary United Nations peacekeeping mission on the ground today has a mandate to protect human rights, except one, the UN Mission for the R...
Michael Conniff | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living
The disintegration of civilization is now officially upon us now that Vermont has legalized gay marriage--the first state legislature to do so. I onc...
David Quigg | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
History will judge who's more loathesome: the legalistic sociopaths who wrote the torture memos made public Thursday or the apologists and trivializer...
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
Why aren't we hearing from responsible voices on the Right who, while defending their colleagues' freedom of speech, deplore incitements to hatred or violence?
William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics
Do you remember how thrilled we were when we heard our new President say: "My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openn...
Chip Berlet | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics
With civil liberties, one size fits all. Yesterday I was on a panel at the Conference on World Affairs about civil liberties with three other panelist...
Chip Berlet | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics
A bunch of clueless mainstream media scribes want you to believe that a handful of centrist Democrats have just devised a way that political discussio...
Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Yesterday was the last day of the 6th year of War in Iraq. It was not the last day of the war. Today, another year of the war began. Though pundits ...
David Quigg | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics
Let's assume Bush and Cheney were right -- right to torture, right to wiretap without warrants, right to set up secret prisons where suspects can be h...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
We need not sacrifice our nation's fundamental constitutional freedoms to address extremist violence. Rather, we need merely stop pursuing corporate subsidies that inadvertently encourage it.
Daniel Firger | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
If Obama wants to signal that he knows what he's doing on secrecy, he should endorse the State Secrets Protection Act ASAP.
Jesse Larner | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics
Other professional obligations have kept me from writing in this space for the last few months. During that time, my piece on the influence of Friedr...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
Holder is seemingly willing to let bygones be bygones when it comes to prosecuting Bush's crew because it would pry open the Democrats dirty but hardly unknown secret.
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
Don't write off Saint Sarah all you political pundits,...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's...
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
Think Progress flags David Brooks telling...
While we of course do not claim to know anyone's thoughts, we nominate these...
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
For this week's installment of their "Lunch with the FT" feature the...
Al Franken's been anointed as Minnesota's junior senator, but how did the...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right...
Make HuffPost Your HomePage
Get Email Alerts
Chip Berlet | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics