For the first time, Obama's approval ratings are below 50 percent and calls for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's resignation are growing louder.
Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
On Friday, Bill Clinton decided not to attend a health care event organized by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann because Olbermann had "politicized" the even...
Lanny Davis | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Stupak amendment supporters should support a proposal that requires that at least one insurance policy on a state exchange include abortion coverage so long as another, identical policy does not include abortion coverage.
The Hill | Jeffrey Young | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have taken a long stride toward locking down the...
Aspen Baker | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
We must recognize that we are a nation deep in conflict, and instead of trying to win with politics, we must work towards building peace. We need to change the conversation about abortion.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
And then there were two. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced Friday for the first time that he will vote to allow the Democratic health care reform b...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.20.2009 | Comedy
As the health care reform bill makes its way through the U.S. Senate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman said today that he was "actively exploring" new ways to be as big a dick as humanly possible.
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
We must not allow abortion opponents to use our health care reform process to drastically restrict a woman's access to a legal medical procedure, and that's exactly what the Stupak amendment does.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
With the Senate poised to cast historic votes on health care legislation, a host of activist groups, labor unions, and even the White House itself lau...
Will Bunch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
If you ever needed proof that 26 percent of America is totally bat-guano out-of-their-freakin'-minds crazy, check out the new poll just out on Obama and ACORN.
Johann Hari | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.
John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
If we live in poverty and industry uses our neighborhoods to site their most toxic operations, how do we pay for the illness those operations cause?
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Patricia Gill has insuran...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Wash...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid's public option is a token public option -- a fleeting gesture toward the idea of a public option, so small and desiccated as to be barely worth mentioning except that it still contains the word "public."
Jim Jaffe | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Congress is moving at a pace that can fairly be characterized as astonishingly fast to slash the number of Americans who lack health insurance by more than half.
Posted 11.19.2009 | Business
As a result of being denied insurance coverage, a six-year-old child in Missouri may never be able to hear again. Fox2Now in Saint Louis has word ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
The latest alarmist claptrap that's emerged in the debate over health care reform involves a study that's been done by the US Preventive Services Task...
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whe...
Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Opponents of health care reform are not only peddling lies created by manipulative messengers like Frank Luntz, they're also doing whatever they can to obstruct progress. It's shameful, really.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
If the Senate has its way with health insurance reform, Sandra Ingram, a 63-year-old cancer patient undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatments in Io...
Michele Swenson | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Democratic leaders have short-circuited the reform "debate" and permitted the process to be hijacked by health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
Matt Osborne | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
The Republican strategy of delay escalated their misfortune; their "tea party" movement is a great, big Teabagger Fail, and the media's credibility is shot right along with them.
Suzanne Langlois | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. He calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats and is at his core a staunch conservative.
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
The current uproar regarding the task force recommendations on breast cancer screening highlights how guidelines have a tendency to insinuate themselves into the fabric of bureaucratic mandates.
Huff Radio | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics