Mao Zedong's Successor Hua Guofeng Dies
BEIJING — Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that lau...
BEIJING — Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that lau...
The Real News | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
The Real News Network's Paul Jay spoke with author and investigative journalist, Naomi Klein about the Olympic show hiding a scary backdrop. Here's the video.
The Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home
President Bush sat down yesterday for interviews with foreign journalists, including two unusual media outlets: the People's Daily newspaper and the C...
Susan Brownell | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
I think it is more accurate to conclude that the Olympic Games have been de-politicized in China's Olympic education efforts -- part of a backlash against the politicized national curriculum.
Nina Darnton | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
In Communist Poland, even when the government told the truth, the public had been conditioned not to believe anything it said. If the Republican propaganda machine isn't careful, it risks the same fate.
Dave Johnson | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
Conservatives are trying to scare me away from voting for Clinton or Obama by claiming that, if elected, they will bring us 5 weeks paid vacation a year and free health coverage at the cost of rich CEOs and corporations.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
If Soros is right and foreigners lose confidence in the U.S. economy, they will want their money back, the dollar will fall, and foreign investments will tumble.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
In the near future, China will eclipse the Middle East and terrorism to be our number one foreign policy challenge. Yet neither Obama nor Clinton are calling for any real change in our China policy.
Steve Clemons | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
One of the very coolest and most informative blogs I check in on a daily basis is ArmsControlWonk.com published by my New America Foundation colleague...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
It's even more important now to consider that George W. Bush isn't just McCain's paradigm for so-called "national security"; he also provides a template for abuse of power.
Michael Giltz | Posted 03.03.2008 | Entertainment
The worst new trend in DVDs is exclusivity. Instead of making the DVD available wherever DVDs are sold, a studio strikes up an exclusive arrangement with an outlet.
Tim Berry | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
Fidel would have risen to power almost anywhere. His ideals weren't working, and Cuba wasn't working, but Fidel Castro was.
David Paul Appell | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
The glimmerings of glasnost on both sides of the Florida straits finally offer hope that some degree of loosening on the island may be in the cards.
Eric Alterman | Posted 11.26.2007 | Entertainment
Did you know that Lucy was a Commie? Perhaps somewhere in the recesses of our collective mind, "Red Lucy" rests somewhere, but it took the complete I Love Lucy set, to jar it free in my case.
Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics
If the US continues to support Musharraf, the most sustainable force that will likely take control of the country will be the one that is by the definition the most anti-American.
William Fisher | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
The clock is ticking on a case that appears to be endless. It is a prosecution that many are describing as one of the most bizarre in US legal history.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 10.14.2007 | Home
I joined CBS at a time when our government for their own reasons was trying to scare the pants off the populace with warnings of International Communi...
Aemilia Scott | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
What is truly scary about Ahmadinejad at Columbia is the reaction of the public at large to his visit.
Huffington Post's Eat The Press | Rachel Sklar | Posted 09.22.2007 | Home
We just received this AP photo of Castro holding Greenspan's book, forwarded by HuffPost reporter Max Follmer. So! We shall see what Perez has to say ...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home