Huffington Post Off the Bus

The media is having a field day over Obama's words. But he lives in Chicago and was talking about sentiments he has heard across the Midwest. I've heard them too. All you have to do is ask.

One of the sadder footnotes currently being written to history is the damage to Joe Wilson's reputation as a pretty good public servant. Contrast his record of service with his craven attacks on Obama.

Sen. John McCain will visit Denver on Thursday to do what many politicians have done before him -- ask for money. But the fundraising trip to the posh...

If McCain were alone in participating in this culture of corruption, we wouldn't be in the economic mess we're now in. Unfortunately, McCain's behavior was typical.

Some people are mistakenly equating Hillary's growing credibility gap with what happened to Al Gore. But Gore was unfairly smeared. With Hillary is self-inflicting these wounds, it's more accurate to equate her with Nixon.

The question facing Democrats at this point in the election cycle is how scorched are we willing to let the earth become?

Last week, Obama asked Americans to acknowledge racism's divisive presence and enduring impact in our society and individual lives, and to join a conversation. He invited us to participate in a process of reconciliation.

The controversy with Rev. Wright, for better or worse politically, strips away the fantasy some voters may have entertained that Barack Obama was just a white man in blackface, utterly isolated and insulated from the racial struggles of the nation where he spent most of his life.

Two years ago this week, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released their essay "The Israel Lobby" and kick-started a much-overdue discussion of America's relationship with Israel - and then all hell broke loose.

Our media is in a terrible state when ordinary citizens doing a Google search can do a better job than some of the highest paid "journalists" in the country.

The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger.

Obama offers a theology grounded in a process, not an outcome: to work out salvation with fear and trembling. His professed beliefs puts him at odds not only with the president, but his own pastor.

Many in the media noted Barack Obama's speech yesterday morning was reminiscent when Mitt Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted?

The infusion of race into the campaign of Senator Obama past yesterday will serve no purpose other than to continue to pour salt into a wound that has now been postured for healing, paving the path to a more perfect union.

The reporting on Rezko has actually taken a similar pattern to past reporting on Clinton "scandals" like Whitewater. Now that Obama has outlined his relationship with Rezko in great detail, it is time to put the story to rest.

According to the Dallas Morning News, Barack Obama has won the Texas caucus, with 38 convention delegates, and though he lost the popular-vote count t...

If Obama can help white America understand why he sat in the pews of Trinity Church in Chicago for twenty years, then he may be able to hold his near-grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination.

Our investigation into the background of DNC superdelegates reveals at least one appointed superdelegate who is as likely to use his political connections for personal profit as for the greater good.

Hillary Clinton has adopted the role of the erstwhile Republican candidate, Mike Huckabee. She has nothing to lose by continuing her campaign and hoping that Obama makes a severe-enough misstep to effectively remove him from contention.

Saturday I marched in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Harrisburg, PA with former U.S. Senator Harris Wofford. As metaphors go, a parade is the best I can think of for a public that is feeling its way along a better course.

With regard to earmarks, Sen. Hillary Clinton is the queen of the hidden dollar. She went so far as to vote against an amendment last year which would have required public disclosure of earmark requests.

Rather than acknowledge the truth about the dark past of America, and in some instances the present, we are quick to charge anyone who removes the veil of our history as being racist and/or anti-American.

Why has Hillary Clinton said she did more than she did, and what has compelled her to do so? What does this resume inflation suggest about any American future with her at the helm of our foreign policy?