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Landra Reid Undergoes Surgery After I-95 Crash: Senator Harry Reid At Hospital, Daughter Released

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 03.13.2010 | Politics


FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trai...

Ajami: You're Not in "Exodus" Anymore

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 03.04.2010 | Entertainment


Leon T. Hadar

Ironically, Ajami introduce American viewers to a new brand of Israel/Palestine that seems to reflect the political, social and cultural realities of this region more than the fantasies being concocted by the PR geniuses.

Coast Guard Helicopter Crashes In Utah Mountains After Returning From Winter Olympics

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 03.04.2010 | Denver


SALT LAKE CITY — A Coast Guard helicopter crashed Wednesday morning in remote Utah mountains after providing security at the Winter Olympics, an...

The F Word: Looking Closer at Joseph Stack

Laura Flanders | Posted 02.23.2010 | Politics


Laura Flanders

By all means hold those who praise Stack to account, and call out media hypocrisy and double standards. But before you dismiss him as simply a crazy, read his manifesto.

The Golden Globes a Disappointment: Gervais was Mixed and Lots of Winners Weren't Prepared

Michael Russnow | Posted 01.19.2010 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

The Golden Globe awards are often the best of the awards shows, because they're more freewheeling and it appears no one really takes them seriously.

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger Still A Star One Year After "Miracle On The Hudson"

AP | EVELYN NIEVES | Posted 03.18.2010 | New York


SAN FRANCISCO — Capt. Sully had 15 minutes. Like most one-name, world-famous celebrities, he also had a press rep monitoring every second. There...

Huffington Post Readers' Picks: 10 Books That Predicted The Financial Crisis

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 03.18.2010 | Books


We posted a list of eight books that predicted the economic crisis and as usual, our readers had their own ideas about what we should have recommended...

Colorado Drunk Driving Increases; Most States See Decrease

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 03.18.2010 | Denver


WASHINGTON — Drunken driving fatality rates have fallen in 40 states and the District of Columbia, an encouraging sign that crackdowns are impro...

Brad Pitt In Motorcycle Accident

TMZ | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment


TMZ has learned Brad Pitt was involved in a minor motorcycle accident moments ago in Los Angeles. A witness at the scene tells us Pitt was trying to ...

Recent Gmail "Crash" Forces Spammers to Awkwardly Approach Potential Customers in Person

Ben Berkon | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy


Ben Berkon

"If this is a trend [with Google], I don't know how I'm going to convince people that 'gorgeous sluts are waiting to meet you,'" said an anonymous spammer.

Car Crash VIDEO: Pickup Truck Runs Red Light Causing Spectacular Crash

Posted 08.13.2009 | Home


This pickup truck doesn't even try to brake for this upcoming red light. Instead, he drives full speed ahead into the intersection with disastrous re...

Forever Four -- A Tiny Life Taken By An Elderly Driver

Casey Sherman | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living


Casey Sherman

Drivers over the age of 85 are four times more likely to kill someone on the road than an inexperienced teenager fresh out of Driver's Ed. class.

We're Running Our World Like a Ponzi Scheme!

Matthew Stein | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green


Matthew Stein

If our world is to maintain its current rate of oil consumption, then we would need to find and develop a Saudi Arabia's worth of oil every year for the next year or two from now to eternity.

Red River Rising: How to Survive the Floods of 2009

Ben Sherwood | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living


Ben Sherwood

Believe it or not, flooding is the #1 cause of weather-related fatalities in this country. Sure, tornadoes and hurricanes get a lot of attention, but flooding kills the most.

In Cramer We Trust?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media


Mike Papantonio

Most of the pundit misinformation occurred because investigative reporting in the news industry is dead. This new breed of financial TV pitchmen weren't paid to ask tough questions.

Barack and Slumdog

Nathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy | Posted 03.20.2009 | World


Nathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy

If politics in the information age is about whose story wins, then, given this reality, America's storytellers -- Hollywood -- have a starring role in defining America's presence globally.

Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment


John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

The Man Who Sold Crash to the Academy

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 02.16.2009 | Entertainment


Erik Lundegaard

Apparently Hollywood filmmakers aren't offering enough wish fulfillment. That's where marketers come in. They lie to us about the lie. If the film is crap, they figure out ways to get us to eat it.

The Crash of Flight 1549: Maybe the Best Metaphor for 2009 We Could Hope For

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 02.15.2009 | Home


Raymond Leon Roker

Maybe the story of this jet crash is exactly the real life fable we needed seared into our nation's consciousness. What if yesterday's "miracle" was a perfect metaphor for 2009?

The Great Depression, The New Deal, World War II and the Crash of '08

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics


Larry Beinhart

Let's start with what everyone can agree on. There was a Great Depression, then the New Deal, then World War II. Also, that America emerged from tha...

The Fall of a Free Market Prophet

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics


Larry Beinhart

The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...

TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED

Larry Beinhart | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics


Larry Beinhart

TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED THE MYTH ...

Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter

Norman Solomon | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics


Norman Solomon

These times provide a crash course on the corporate state: If a company like AIG is too big to fail, the government will rescue it. Mere pe...

The Legacy of TWA Flight 800

Robert Davey | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics


Robert Davey

Whether the FAA has the nerve to impose a new expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars per aircraft remains to be seen. Whether the rule is necessary is another question.

"Crash" Producer Loses Legal Fight For An Oscar

AP | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court has ruled that a producer of the movie "Crash" can't sue to get an Academy Award retroactively. Bob Ya...