All things converged to one night: tonight, forty-one years ago. The police found the fuse and lit it.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The following is the transcript of Senator Edward Kennedy's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
The Supreme Court next week will hear a case that may allows police officers to do essentially anything unless courts have expressly told them that they couldn't.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
I've seen rampant militarism bankrupt every sector of this nation - from its tangible infrastructure to its intangible soul.
Jackson Katz | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
"I don't think Barack Obama is half the man Sarah Palin is. He can't take a punch, he's weak, and he whines," Limbaugh says of the Democratic nominee.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin has already singlehandedly introduced several terms into our political lexicon. "Hockey mom" is probably the most recognizable of these. ...
Christopher Ingram | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin delivered an out of the park speech last night. And John McCain can be proud of his selection and ignore the personal and political attack...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
I know that just about the entire blogosphere is talking about John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin (who?) for his running mate, but I, for one, refuse t...
David Kusnet | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Whether Obama, like Reagan, will win a clear mandate from anxious voters remains to be seen. But this much is apparent: Once again, a clearly defined set of beliefs has found a Great Communicator.
Chris Meserole | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Obama's strategy this past month is a variant of the "rope-a-dope" strategy in boxing, where you let the opponent throw his best punches, exhaust himself on the offensive, and then unleash a barrage of your own.
Brad Parker | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
After the Clintons passed the torch, the proceedings turned squeamishly militaristic. Republicans want to bully the world and have since World War ll. As fallen knight John Edwards said, America must find something to be patriotic about other than war.
Hannah Fisher | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
The USA is a country frequently portrayed by outsiders as hosting extravagant, voluble and boisterous events. As a young Brit in town, this is certai...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
Hillary made the case she needed to make to her supporters who were still sitting on the fence, and she did it perfectly, in a speech for the ages.
Gordon Marino | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics
I have an Obama sign on my front lawn in suburban Minnesota, and as of two days ago I also have two cars marked with the large white letters "KKK."
Timothy Karr | Posted 09.26.2008 | Media
While the networks yuk it up with sitcoms and teen libido, the message they're sending the American public is that the most important political gatherings of the last four years don't merit the nation's full attention.
Jon Raymond | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
The real reason voters might go over to McCain is the animosity coming from the Obama people, the people who idolize a leader who "treats people with dignity and respect," as Michelle Obama put it.
Diane Tucker | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
CNN's Anderson Cooper told television viewers at 9 PM, "The first two hours went by without anyone delivering a focused message." He has a flair for understatement.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Mainstream media are now confirming, and going beyond, the initial reports this evening of a possible assassination plot against Barack Obama and the arrest of two men.
Norman B. Wilson | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
While a huge media party raged at nearby Elitch Gardens, Jeannie Ritter, wife of Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, slipped in through a side door without any fanfare and sat at the back to meditate.
Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
HuffPost's OffTheBus is teaming up with USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership and the Institute for Photographic Empowerment to support...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.25.2008 | Media
With the 2008 Democratic national convention about to begin in Denver, I can't help recalling the first DNC that I covered in 1968, exactly 40 years ago this week.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.
Craig Newmark | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home
The big reason I'm here is to stand up for participatory democracy. This election marks the serious beginning of a shift from big-money governance to networked governance.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
During the first democratic nominating convention I attended in 1976 (I was a delegate in 1974 but that interim convention was only about rules change...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
John McCain said something ridiculous to a reporter yesterday. I hasten to point out that the previous sentence should have been a major media headlin...
Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Chicago