I have the feeling that when Obama gives his speech at the Denver Convention, it could be as much "a moment" as it was when Kennedy delivered his "New Frontiers" speech 48 years ago.
Robert Scheer | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Castro's resignation is more promising for the burnishing of his legacy than the Cuban hard-liners in Miami and their fawning allies in the Bush administration would like to believe.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
It's wrong for Bush to try to bind the next president and lock the nation indefinitely into the endless quagmire that the Iraq war has become.
Will.i.am | Posted 02.03.2008 | Entertainment
I came up with the idea to turn Obama's New Hampshire speech into a song because that speech affected and touched my inner core like nothing in a very long time. It spoke to me.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
Marcia Pappas, the President of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women, gained a bit of notoriety on Monday when she called ...
Robert Scheer | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics
Clinton's apologists include Gloria Steinem and too many other feminists, who should know better than to betray the women's movement's commitment to peace in favor of simplistic gender politics.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Summoning memories of his brother the slain president, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy led two generations of the First Family of Democratic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
With one Massachusetts senator throwing his weight into the Democratic presidential race today, anticipation now mounts for the other to follow suit. ...
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
The news that the CIA tapes were destroyed came the very same week we learned that as many as ten million White House emails were not preserved, despite a law that requires that they be kept.
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Mitt's speech on his Mormonism today was meant to echo Kennedy's on Catholicism--was it? In his address--to a groomed audience--Mitt used the term MORMON, how many times? Once.
Eric Alterman | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics
: When speaking at the memorial service for Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a while back, Mailer made the odd comment that he was really just an acquaintance o...
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Head Start is currently up for reauthorization by Congress -- and we're using this opportunity to improve it to help millions more.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
Ending our health care system's discrimination against the mentally ill makes sense for our nation and our economy.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 09.19.2007 | Home
There are two ways to take this comparison between the Obama grassroots movement and first-century Christian evangelism: depending on your point of view, the earlier movement illuminates the later as either falling far short or completely doable. And isn't it bizarre, to use Bruce's adjective, that so many people, even skeptical, inquiring writers like me, find themselves speaking of Barack Obama in religious terms?
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics
Either the polls are lying to me, or you guys are just ignoring the public and conspiring to prove that Democrats have no backbone whatsoever.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
Lenders have been siphoning off billions in subsidies intended for students, while charging them astronomical interest rates for the loans they need to pay for college. It's long past time to put a stop to that outrageous abuse.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
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Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Jonathan Greenspan | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics