The global climate change crisis threatens our economy and our national security in profound ways. Governor Palin need look no further than the view from her front porch in Alaska to see how destructive this crisis can be.
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The flagrant disregard that dogfighters routinely show for society's norms was replaced by the snap of handcuffs and the slap of 30 or so arrest warrants.
GlobalPost | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he will hold far-ranging oversight hearings on the U.S. inv...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
A suit filed yesterday in Massachusetts is a smart, novel attack on a law that is clearly unconstitutional, but also has the support of a waning, yet significant portion of the U.S. population.
treehugger.com | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green
Senator John Kerry says that unfortunately, that's a distinct possibility....
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.02.2009 | Style
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke her elbow outside the White House on June 18th, her injury put her in good company: Supreme Court Justic...
Steve Ralls | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued regulations that would end the United States' decades-old HIV travel and immigration ban.
Bryan Young | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics
I don't trust private industry with my health.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a shot at John Kerry when speaking to troops in Kosovo. The Massachusetts Democrat had joked that he wished Palin had g...
Boston Herald | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner Letterman yesterday. The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
In a closed-door meeting of Senate Finance Committee Democratic members and their staff Wednesday evening, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) suggested that if...
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.
Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style
Summer has arrived and with it, the season of bikinis, SPF and aloe vera -- but some familiar Washington faces seem to have an orange glow all year ro...
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.
Foreign Policy | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
All State Department nominees are on hold, some Hill and other sources tell The Cable. A congressional source says that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) put a hol...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
For every valuable piece of information circulating via Twitter, there seems to be an unverified string of gossip attached to it. Such is the danger of citizen journalism.
AP | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean gave the Obama administration high marks Thursday for its arms-length response to the ...
nytimes.com | JOHN KERRY | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
THE grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines -- ...
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
McAuliffe presented himself as a carpetbagger, pure and simple. Blaming the Clintons is grossly unfair to the former President and the Secretary of State.
AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry has made it in politics. Now he wants to be a movie producer. The Massachusetts Democrat has asked the Senate ethi...
Financial Times | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
One of the most senior Democrats in Washington has dismissed a key element in the west's long standing strategy on Iran's nuclear programme as "ridicu...
William Bradley | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 is all the more tragic in that the initiative never should have passed in the first place.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
House Minority Leader John Boehner pushed on Thursday for a bipartisan panel of lawmakers to investigate the veracity of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim ...
Sahil Kapur | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
By deflecting their elitism onto their rivals, the party of plutocrats has for decades held the trust of millions of Americans while simultaneously swindling them.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
Democrats are elitist, right-wingers insist, even if they are needy enough to receive not just college, but high school scholarships. In this case, the proof of Obama's elitism was his request for Dijon.
John Kerry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green