Men are mentally crippled by the overwhelming irrelevancy of traditional male gender training, which robs them of the mental flexibility necessary to deal with the complex world we actually inhabit.
Chris Durang | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
I have many things I feel thankful about in my life. But in terms of our country and our planet -- hmmm. Not feeling so confident, so up, so grateful. And about Barack Obama -- well I feel very disappointed. There, I've said it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 11.30.2009 | Style
LBJ's first state dinner was a barbecue in Texas for West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. No politician ever used the conviviality and informality of eating outdoors better than the 36th president.
Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
On Friday night, Bill Moyers played clips from the Lyndon B. Johnson tapes on his PBS television show. Moyers drew correlations between the factors f...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
It's March 16, 1965. We have a Democratic President. We have large Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. It's long been part of the progressive and liberal platform...
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?
Bill Moyers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
While so many Texans have fought and are fighting the good fight in the Judge William Wayne Justice tradition, others believe in the law only when it sides with them.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
The opt-out is a hard blow to the public option, and potentially a crippling one. When a solution sounds too good to be true -- we can compromise and still get everything we want! -- it probably is.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
The GOP cannot even claim credit for bringing the bills to the middle of the road -- the Democrats are hogging all of it. And that is a good thing, despite what some may think.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York
In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy. Landmark bills on education, health care and civil rights were flying through Congress. But he stayed out of New York politics.
Steven Hill | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
When it comes to Obama lining up votes from recalcitrant members of his own party, LBJ's brawling, Southern style of trench politics is the one best suited for the current health care reform challenge.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The mixed signal from Obama and the flat rejection by Baucus is simply the latest in the long line of neon bright warnings that the public option will go when it's crunch time.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
What has happened to the anti-war movement of old? Why have we as a nation allowed two simultaneous wars to be waged in our name?
Dan Siegel | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
We are starved for a leader who can express righteous indignation against the corrupt forces who have emptied the public purse while bidding for the powers that be.
Murray Fromson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
None of my colleagues covering Ted Kennedy's early emergence on the national horizon in the 1960s bet on him as a promising young star.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Public distaste for the Afghanistan War can easily make it Obama's Vietnam -- history should serve as a warning for him.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Will the role of the U.S. in this millennium, be that of an empire that profits by promoting global instability? Or will the empire strike back?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.17.2009 | World
Like the economic crisis, I'm sure Obama would rather not be saddled with the wars that continue from the Bush era, but now it's on him.
Maggie Mahar | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
Forces calling for health care reform are gaining momentum. But if by "reform," they simply mean "universal coverage," I have to disagree.
Donald Cohen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has the chance to create an impressive and paradigm-shifting package of legislation and new public programs. People voted for change. Now let's do it.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
By Stephen C. Rose Oddly, no one has thought to compare the situations of Barack Obama and LBJ, but there are similarities. And, happily, redemptive ...
Craig Crawford | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's election proves that by doing the right thing, Lyndon B. Johnson and his party ultimately got their reward.
Philip Slater | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics