Church and State in JFK's America
Whatever happened to the America that JFK believed in? The America in which "no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials"?
Whatever happened to the America that JFK believed in? The America in which "no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials"?
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The latest tempest involved New York's 23rd Congressional district, where the Republican candidate was forced out of the race because of her positions on gay and abortion rights.
The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books
The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and wh...
Steven M. Gillon | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
Exactly when did doctors give up their efforts to save Kennedy's life? And when did Lyndon Johnson learn that JFK was dead?
Barry Levinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Communication -- the ability to connect and manipulate -- is perhaps the most interesting part of politics we can observe, and the most frightening.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
To mark the recent publication of Gore Vidal's memoir, Snapshots in History's Glare, The Atlantic's John Meroney interviewed the American literary and...
Carol Orsborn | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
In light of the deteriorating Consumer Confidence Index, Wall Street should worry less about Boomers' level of consumer confidence and more about our degree of consumer denial.
Nick Foulkes | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style
This Museum reminded me just how cool Jack looked. Kennedy showed that you could be a man who shopped and still face down the Soviet Union when the need arose.
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
The Nobel being awarded to Obama is the world saying loud and clear that the right wing zealots in the United States are out-of-line with everybody else on the planet.
Michael Kubin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy
What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.
Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media
Just as we want our success to be the result of skill, not luck, we prefer to be the victims of conspiracy rather than chance.
Adam Neiman | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
What we lack and urgently need, since two political assassinations in 1968 defined modern American politics, is a frank and sane way to discuss political conspiracy.
Tom Gregory | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.
AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
DALLAS — The FBI is investigating a "stolen" handwritten condolence note by Jacqueline Kennedy to Ethel Kennedy that was penned shortly after Ro...
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
The President called on all Americans to be strong, firm, and united to serve the nation while remembering the events of 9/11/01. This all sounds very inspiring. But not to Rush Limbaugh.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
This was one of the very best Presidential speeches I have ever heard. And more importantly, Barack Obama did everything he needed to do.
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The Kennedys knew how to strive for noble causes, step by step. They would make deals, but only to benefit the best causes.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
The "Today Show" announced this week that they've hired Jenna Bush (aka Jenna Hager) to file stories for them about once a month. "It wasn't something...
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
As I sat and watched the media coverage of the life of Senator Edward Kennedy, something struck me as unfair: What about the former Mrs. Kennedy -- Joan Bennett Kennedy?
Carolynn Carreño | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
I was chatting with the very cool Lesley Balla about Twitter, when she logged on to Twitter to alert her followers of what she was eating and where, and we learned that Ted Kennedy had died.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Forty eight years after his brother challenged America to ask what we, as citizens, could do for our country, it was left to Teddy to attend the swearing-in of the first African-American President.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The real colorful dream of this country is not about a mythical Camelot but a real land of second-chances, a land of reinvention and fresh opportunity.
Roger Wolfson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
When I left Kennedy's service, I had a theory of why he kept those photographs of his family so prominently displayed in his office. So many people came and went in his life, and Ted was the constant.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics