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WASHINGTON — New applications for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week, largely due to Hurricane Gustav, the government said Thursd...
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
Led by Senators Ted Stevens and Frank Lautenberg, and Reps. Tom Lantos and Chris Shays, the PETS Act set national policy on how to deal with animals in disasters in a post-Katrina environment.
Joe Garcia | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
The greatest impediment to the wellbeing of the Cuban people is the Cuban government itself. But this fact does not give us license to throw our hands in the air and not offer our help.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?
Christopher Fink | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home
The best bet to weather natural disasters may be to live in an election swing state, then what happens in the the weeks after the disasters hit might really matter.
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...
Randy Fertel | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
Monday morning New Orleans breathed a sigh of relief. Only, there was this: we had breathed the same sigh and indulged in the same cliché on an all-too-similar Monday morning three years before.
Carl Pope | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
As the Gulf Coast picks itself up after Gustav, and the Atlantic coast gets ready for Hannah, Ike, and Josephine, I'm going to fall back on the adage ...
Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green
One would think that the relatively new federal department, Homeland Security, would be doing its best to defend our homes, to keep us where our heart and hearth reside.
Carl Pope | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green
Hurricanes are big; nature is bigger. Natural systems, not engineered ones, are the only defenses big enough to rely on in a big storm.
Jamie Court | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home
The CNBC anchors acted like I'd yelled fire in a crowded movie house when I pointed out this morning that it was investment losses driving insurance ...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home
The AP asks the rather provocative question of, after hurricane Gustav, whether 'New Orleans is worth it?': Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane Gustav is proof that the billions of dollars spent to protect the city and bring it back t...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush said Tuesday he was grateful that Hurricane Gustav was nowhere near as destructive as Hurricane Katrina. He used Gus...
Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 10.03.2008 | Entertainment
If John McCain is smart, a viewing of When The Levees Broke might put his Straight Talk Express back on the right track. It might even find its way into his acceptance speech on Thursday night.
Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- "It's like showing up at a party and realizing you're at the wrong place" is how CBS News Washington bureau chief Christopher Isham...
CBS 2 | Posted 10.02.2008 | Chicago
Millions of people have been scrambling to get out of New Orleans before Gustav hits. And some of those evacuees have ended up right here in Chicago. ...
Paul Loeb | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Karl Rove's minions may be smiling at the brazen gamesmanship of this pick: but if Americans fall for it, they should know all too well what to expect.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Katrina was a natural disaster. (False) New Orleans is located in the wrong place and should be relocated. (False) New Orleans is entirely below sea level. (False)
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media
The Glynnis-Ana-Rachel early-morning vlog show is back, this time fully-clothed and well-fed after the Politico breakfast, which was well-tweeted here...
Hannah Fisher | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
At a time when delegates, supporters and journalists gather in St Paul's, Minneapolis, to witness the commencement of the Republican National Conventi...
Time | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
As often as not, presidential campaigns are won or lost because of the unexpected, not the predictable. In the heat of a final push towards Election D...
Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
***Check back for updates*** Read more about the convention at the Republican Convention Big News Page and the HuffPost's Politics section UPDATE,...
AP | PABLO GORONDI | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business
Oil prices tumbled to $111 a barrel Monday as Hurricane Gustav weakened along the Gulf Coast and posed less of a threat to oil drilling and refining o...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business
Why is it that our media hardly ever gets it right and lets the oil industry and the speculators run roughshod over our pocketbooks?
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AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home