WASHINGTON — President Bush signed an executive order on Friday to expand sanctions against what he calls the "illegitimate" regime of Zimbabwe'...
Joe Galloway | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Bush and McCain had barely completed even one Iraq victory lap singing hosannas to the surge when they were obliged to begin thinking and talking about how they're going to shore up a failing policy in Afghanistan.
Charlie Reina | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
These days, whenever a statesman stands at a podium, I imagine President Bush there instead, and I wonder: "How much more eloquent would his words be? How much more visionary?"
Linda Milazzo | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
If Barack Obama is to be the "change we can believe in," how can he seriously consider using men who represent failed administrations and failed policies in his own administration?
Eric Alterman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
This year I promised myself not to be surprised by how awful our election coverage is, no matter how awful it is. How awful is it? Well, this WSJ op...
Gerald Bracey | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
First Lady Follies Laura Bush says that, come what may, No Child Left Behind will be a part of her husband's legacy. Absolutely. Some of us think i...
Scott Swenson | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Last week the Bush Administration issued a letter waiving the annual application process and review for the Title V Abstinence-Only State Grant Program.
Chuck Spinney | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Almost 7 years after 9/11, bin Laden remains at large, the Taliban are growing stronger, and Afghanistan is sinking into a deepening quagmire that's spilling over into nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Obama did all the "right" things during his tour of the Middle East. But doing the "right things" might not be enough to actually achieve Middle East peace. Obama needs to do more.
Paul Abrams | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Excluding from the pardon power persons who have worked for the administration will prevent the president from covering up illegal acts -- making it less likely that officials will carry out illegal acts in the first place.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Three days into his international fact-finding mission, Obama had polished his foreign policy credentials considerably, and it did not take long for the effects of his bold initiatives to start hitting D.C.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and prevent...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
After it first gained wide attention here at HuffPost yesterday, media commentators started weighing in on the video of Bush joking about Wall Street getting "drunk." Here is some other commentary.
Lincoln Chafee | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
The president reversed his predecessors' good, conservative fiscal policies -- responsible stewardship of revenues and expenditures. So who's drunk?
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered b...
Sam Sedaei | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
If McCain, who brags about his foreign policy credentials, can't get the facts right about who shares a border with whom and who's helping who in different struggles, he is not qualified to lead this country.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and prevent...
William Bradley | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
With the eyes of the world, and the U.S. media, trained intently on Obama during his week-long tour of the Middle East and Europe, for McCain, there is the question of what to do while all this is going on.
Carine Fabius | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
How do republicans keep doing it? They take a nice word like "liberal," pummel it to death with nonsense, it becomes a label so awful that politicians trip over themselves running away from it.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston has video from a political fundraiser last week capturing some embarrassing/revealing moments after President Bush had asked cameras to be turned off.
Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
John McCain is having such a bad July -- I turned (as I often do) to the wisdom of Jay-Z -- and listed the first 99 of his collective woes that came to mind.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
What exactly is a win in Iraq? John McCain and his writers apparently had trouble defining it to the New York Times's op-ed page.
John McQuaid | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Why have the media been so reluctant to acknowledge Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's all-but endorsement of Obama's Iraq plans?
Jeffrey Kluger | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
There are few fields in which the increasingly sophisticated science of simplexity -- the study of the way simple things can be improbably complex, and complex things can be brilliantly simple -- applies more powerfully than in politics.
Mona Gable | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
I was extremely confused by Bush's rosy economic speech. Here my local bank, IndyMac, is collapsing, with distraught customers waiting in line for hours last week to get their money.
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AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home