Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, says that President Obama ought to consider gender and race -- in addition to judicial philosophy and c...
Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 09.30.2008 | Home
Clinton supporters are skeptical about your nomination, Sarah, and I've talked to others who are insulted. You see, they didn't support Senator Clinton because she was a woman but because she was their advocate.
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
With the schism between his primary and general campaign selves apparent, you'd think he'd be sufficiently self-aware to acknowledge his mere politician's status and get on with it. In his acceptance speech, he finally did.
Erik Ose | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Biden's acceptance speech proved what the citizens of Delaware have known for a long time: Biden is a regular Joe with all-American family values who also happens to be a Senator.
Diane Tucker | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home
Message delivered? That the Obama Camp is a quick study. (Compare Wednesday night's production to Monday night's.) It's a good message if you're marketing an inexperienced candidate.
Vanessa Edwards Foster | Posted 09.21.2008 | Home
The disaster of the Administration's economic policies began for me five years ago when my job was outsourced. Now I feel I'm part of a larger trend. As fashionistas might say: "Poor is the new black."
Erik Ose | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
If the left is ever going to get serious about winning elections, we need to stop insisting on 100% ideological purity from our candidates. News flash: politics is about assembling winning coalitions.
Erik Ose | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
Because Edwards is out of office, not on the ballot, and now out of the running for a convention speech, VP slot or cabinet post, the scandal will have little effect on Democrats' chances this fall.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
Does the schedule for August's Democratic convention provide any clues to whom Barack Obama will pick as his vice president? On a conference call on ...
Erik Ose | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
In retrospect, Edwards' entire political career was a flash in the pan, a triumph of hype over substance, and a big let-down for any progressives who were fooled into thinking Edwards was the second coming of FDR.
Judah Freed | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home
I want the Democrats to win the White House and to make the next Supreme Court appointments and that's why Obama has got to put Gen. Wesley Clark in the second spot on the ticket.
New York Magazine | John Heilemann | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
The victor and the vanquished are standing in a cluttered hallway backstage at the Washington Convention Center, conducting a conversation short and s...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
We can credit Hillary with many gifts, among them, however, is not a mastery of timing: The "experience" candidate's campaign is a textbook example of right things done at wrong times.
TIME | KAREN TUMULTY | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign's...
Diane Francis | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Hillary has become a de facto independent Democrat (like Joe Lieberman) who will join forces with, or pave the way, for John McCain to win this fall.
New York Times | MICHAEL POWELL | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
He gives the appearance of a strikingly laid-back victor, this presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. On the day before the night he made histo...
Reny Monk | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home
Who wants to be the first to sign? Perhaps I should look up Monica, Paula and Gennifer and see if they'd be interested.
JB Powell | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
Hillary never understood: the war in Iraq is not even remotely close to welfare reform or any other partisan slap fight of the last several decades. It's the most disastrous foreign policy decision since Vietnam.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
The number of delegates Obama needs to clinch the nomination is dwindling fast. As he gets closer to the "magic number" of 2,118, HuffPost wants to k...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
Will she drop out tonight? Will she give an uncommitted speech and drop out in the coming days once Obama reaches 2,118 delegates? Or is her campaign serious about its repeated threats to continue their quest all the way to the Denver convention?
Simon Woods | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
It is an unarguable truth that more people have voted for Hillary Clinton than any other candidate in this Primary, or in any Democratic Primary ever. They may not "count," but they will count in November.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
Bill Clinton's flashes of pique and anger, memory lapses and outrageous moments have obscured one of the great stories of Election 2008. His skill at small town campaigning is a gift he could give to the general election campaign.
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Dawn Teo | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
The Smithsonian has accepted three Obama wristwatches into the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History. "What Time is it?" "Time for change!"
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics