How Tough is Our President?
The widening gap between admiration for Obama and cynicism about his policies reinforces passivity in his base, which makes it even harder to advance a specific agenda like health care.
The widening gap between admiration for Obama and cynicism about his policies reinforces passivity in his base, which makes it even harder to advance a specific agenda like health care.
USA Today | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places t...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
What happens when you bring together 10 strangers with nothing in common for a conversation about what Obama's candidacy means to them and how they may continue their work to help the administration?
AP | JOANN LOVIGLIO | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
PHILADELPHIA — From the boisterous streets of New York to the suddenly silent casinos in Las Vegas and virtually everywhere in between, American...
Jann Karam | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment
I'm not saying that getting laid is the agenda at every political event. But when everybody's drunk on America, there's a good chance to engage salaciously with legislators or the fit security staff.
Don King | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
The world is watching American history in the making, live and in living color. We've taken an important step in the right direction by electing Barack Obama as President.
Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media
The new year will see new leadership not only in the White House but also at Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with chairman and CEO Christie Hefner handing the mantle of responsibility to someone else.
Don Tapscott | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
President-elect Obama's mobilizing the millions of young people who supported his presidential campaign to help him as he prepares to govern a troubled country.
Julie Menin | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
While some celebrated that New Hampshire just became the first state to have a majority of women legislators in one of their chambers, the question to ask is, why are they the only ones?
Victoria Lautman | Posted 12.15.2008 | Chicago
I'm grateful to Obama supporters who didn't trumpet their insiderness and perks to everyone within earshot. Gratitude is one thing. Tolerating one-upsmanship another.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Obama ran a campaign of high integrity, focusing on issues that really mattered, showing he could lead the whole country forward -- not pandering, but speaking to our higher selves.
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home
Without exception the people we took to the polls carried the elegance of the history they knew they were making.
Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago
Scenes from Barack Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park ...
John Koch | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
My sister lives in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the more conservative cities in the state. Alison is a registered Republican and has voted that way every four years. Now she is voting for Obama.
Adrienne Birecree | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
My husband and I got up at 5am this morning so we would be at our polling place before it opened at 6am. We definitely knew where we were going. If w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Send us your Election Day stories here. Read letters from HuffPost readers at our On The Ground page. Here are two of the more colorful emails from O...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Voters in many places are either being prevented from voting, tricked into fearful silence or otherwise hindered. So the only safe option for our country is a landslide victory for Obama!
The Ballot Box | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home
McCain's Center City headquarters are located in the heart of Philadelphia's Chinatown. Here and elsewhere in this Democratic-leaning city, support fo...
AP | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- That smiling guy walking down the street? Odds are he's a Barack Obama backer. The grouchy looking one? Don't ask, and don't necess...
Judy Muller | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
On November 5th, one of these two candidates is going to have to take the devastated, bruised, outraged feelings of millions of Americans and make them believe that they still have a vital voice in this democracy.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Barack challenges us to be active agents in the decision. His invitation, his challenge to take our destiny in our own hands, is why I support Barack Obama.
Local Voices For Obama | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
The blog "Local Voices for Obama" is presenting a series of videos featuring people from all across America speaking about who they are and why they'r...
Daniel Chun | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Obama supporters, it's time to come to grips with the fact that our guy might win. If he does, November 4th will be amazing. But it'll be much more amazing if you feel like you played a role.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
Still more ugliness and hostility on the campaign trail, courtesy of North Carolina's Fayetville Observer: Someone slashed the tires of at least 30 ...
Randy Shaw | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
If Barack Obama's campaign wins on November 4th, LA should be identified as the birthplace of the grassroots voter outreach strategy that dramatically changed the political course of the US.
Robert Reich | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics