The campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain both held conference calls Wednesday afternoon to hammer each other on national security. McCain's mess...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
Former Hillary Clinton flack Howard Wolfson and I may have had structural disagreements over whether the voters in states like Virginia are "important...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
David Bellavia, founder of Bush suck-up outfit Vets For Freedom, says he "will never attack a Vietnam veteran," but then proceeds to say this about Se...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
Senator Joseph Lieberman's decision to speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention is being met with deep consternation among Democrats and i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
Two weeks ago, when the Huffington Post reported that the "infanticide" charge against Barack Obama was gaining traction in right-wing circles, the Il...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
In the wake of John McCain's forceful rebuke of Russia for sending invading forces into Georgia, scrutiny has been placed on the role McCain's chief f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
A new Obama campaign ad hammering John McCain on the economy bears a striking resemblance to an ad produced several months ago by an outside Democrati...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
Over at the Cato Institute's blog, Jim Harper argues that McCain's "I'll follow bin Laden to the Gates Of Hell" rhetoric at the Saddleback Forum gave ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
SEE UPDATE BELOW FOR NEW McCAIN RESPONSE Early on Wednesday morning, both Barack Obama and John McCain released ads focused on taxes. If the tone of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
How big a deal is today's veepstakes comment from Sen. Joe Biden that "I'm not the guy"? A figure familiar with Biden's thinking says the remark is h...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
My friends, I had hoped to never write about the massive fail known as BarackBook ever again. Ever, ever, again. But the nimrods behind this inanity...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
It's almost hard to believe there's a single stone of veep-related speculation yet to be unturned and over-examined, but here's one: If Delaware Sen. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
ThinkProgress is touting an encouraging study from the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy that indicates that wide swaths of middle-class American...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Now that Pervez Musharraf is out of office, and no longer doing the sterling work of advancing democracy for which he is known, one wonders: what's ne...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Word has gone out that an aching world should prepare themselves, through a thorough vetting process, to receive The Most Historically Important Text ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Speculation abounds these days as to whom, exactly, Barack Obama will choose as a vice presidential candidate. The secrecy that surrounds the process ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
On Monday, opponents of an Arizona ballot initiative that would bar public institutions from adopting affirmative action policies filed what observers...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
John McCain trooped out to another oil rig today, looking for a future Fortress of Solitude where he can spend his next gas tax holiday, in his Cone o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Al Gore will reportedly speak at the final night of the Democratic convention -- a coveted spot, but one that should put to rest the rumors (however f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Sometimes political attacks materialize all by themselves. John McCain is set to board a helicopter today and travel 150 miles off the Louisiana cost...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Washington Post associate editor and famed Watergate investigative journalist Bob Woodward has returned to his recent stomping grounds -- the Bush Whi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
There was a thread of stern if not defensive outrage in Barack Obama's address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday. The Illinois Democrat did n...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Back in March, the McCain campaign was apoplectic after Barack Obama, responding to claims that he had been endorsed by Hamas, accused the Senator of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Two weekends ago, an amendment that would have banned all caucuses from future Democratic nominating contests was rejected at a DNC platform committee...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Reflecting a much more creative and confrontational approach to the presidential campaign, Change to Win, the major labor organization, is launching a...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics