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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has alerted domestic agencies to plan for a freeze or even a 5 percent cut in their budgets, part of an el...
Rep. Darrell Issa | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Congress and the administration are addicted to using the taxpayers to prop up the flailing housing market without proper oversight. It is precisely this negligent behavior that got us into this mess.
thenation.com | William Greider | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
The Obama administration promised to reform the financial system and make it safe for the rest of us, but recent Congressional action is more likely t...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
TOKYO — The White House's top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama. White House cou...
Credit Writedowns | Edward Harrison | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
David Rosenberg thinks the unemployment rate is headed much higher than anyone anticipates. If you recall, back in January when the stimulus package ...
Thomas Frank | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Currently, oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.
Geoff Kors | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Over the past year, voters have stripped away marriage rights in California and Maine. And the California Supreme Court failed in its obligation to protect our fundamental freedom to marry. So now what?
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The tragedy at Fort Hood last week raises the question of whether we are indeed fighting in Afghanistan in order to protect ourselves from having to do so on our own soil.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders are full of self-congratulation. But they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank.
Project Syndicate | George Soros | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
NEW YORK -- Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundame...
Lowell Thompson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
We like to look back on past presidents and precedents to compare to current leaders. But when you actually know something about the real history, it seldom compares with our pop version.
Kate Clinton | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
At 7:30 on election morning, we walked to our local polling place in the elementary school, past the "Vote Aqui" signs, past the bake sale moms, the c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
The pushback against an omnipotent Federal Reserve keeps growing. A top Congressional leader said Thursday that the Fed will not have the power to ov...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What we're seeing is that having Obama in the White House, and Democrats "in control" of Congress doesn't get you much in the way of progressive change.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
The Obama Administration is planning to start cutting the deficit soon. Even merely to discuss tax raises, expenditure cuts, and the increases in interest rates that are entailed will slow the recovery.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
If you look before you leap / And worry that you're in too deep / If flag-draped coffins cost you sleep / You're "dithering."
Bob Cesca | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It's been exactly one year since Barack Obama was elected, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the president hasn't fixed the whole world yet. Then again, he never promised such a thing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
A House panel voted Wednesday to permanently exempt more than half of all publicly traded companies from a seven-year-old post-Enron measure designed ...
Lance Simmens | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Why is it that it is easier to take the country into war without justification than it is to ensure that every American is entitled to health care?
James M. Gentile | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Transformative science is high-risk high-reward inquiry. It's crucial that government take the lead in this regard, especially with the U.S. economy struggling.
AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The government's latest count of stimulus jobs significantly overstates the effects of the $787 billion program under a popular fed...
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
I am drawing together here the stories of six men who, nearly eight years after their wrongful and mistaken capture, are finally free from Guantánamo, even if an uncertain future awaits them.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
With the White House's blessing, a House panel voted Tuesday to water down a key post-Enron measure designed to protect investors. In a voice vote, m...
David Plouffe | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Arianna has written much that I agree with. But when it comes to her suggestion that there is some great difference between President Obama and Candidate Obama, I have to register the strongest possible dissent.
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AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics