Obama White House

"The Other City" -- The Story of AIDS in Washington and AIDS in America

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics


Jose Antonio Vargas

As we mark World AIDS Day, here are facts about Washington, D.C., home to the first African Americans in the White House: At least 3 percent of the city's population is HIV-positive. A little more than 7 percent of all residents age 40 to 49 carry the virus. For the record, President Barack Obama is 48 and First Lady Michelle Obama is 45.

Jason Linkins

White House Mocks 'Politico' With Super-Mean Email Forward

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media


I'd describe Politico's brand of journalism as banality, added to Scientology, multiplied by the spasmodic frenzy of a tween who hasn't learned to displace their unfulfilled erotic needs onto emo vampires.

Diva In The White House: Does Desiree Rogers Have The Obamas' Back?

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics


Linda R. Monk, J.D.

The devil of planning major events is in the details. And if Ms. Rogers is not going to attend to them, she better make sure somebody else does. A social secretary is normally a work horse, not a show horse.

White House Emphasizes The Positive In Afghanistan, With Hopes Of Gaining Support For Troops

latimes.com | Posted 11.30.2009 | World


The United States is developing a set of benchmarks to ensure that Karzai fights corruption and inefficiency, instituting a "monitoring and verificati...

White House State Dinner: Shared Responsibility The Key To Global Security And Economic Growth

Mira Veda | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics


Mira Veda

The state dinner comes at an ideal time when both countries have common interests, to spread democracy, economic growth, free markets and fight terrorism.

How The Obama Family Spent Thanksgiving

people.com | Michael Y. Park | Posted 11.27.2009 | Style


What does the leader of the free world tuck into on Bird Day? Anything -- and everything -- he wants. ...

Sam Stein

Obama States Strong Support For House Health Care Reform, Public Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


With the House of Representatives set to vote on health care reform during a session on Saturday, the White House announced its support for the legisl...

One Year Later: Celebrities Who Have Visited The Obama White House (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment


The White House released its visitor log on Friday in an act of "transparency like you've never seen before." The list of 431 names only includes thos...

At the White House, Clean Tech Gets a Push

Mike Signer | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green


Mike Signer

W.H. Climate Change Policy Director Carol Browner said, "I've been in and out of D.C. for twenty years, and there's sort of that tipping point that happens, where everyone who talks starts saying not 'if' but 'when.'"

White House Pink Ribbon Installed For Breast Cancer Awareness

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact


Nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and the White House is showing its support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Mont...

The Trigger is a Lie

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

There's a million ways to rig the Medicare system so that nothing ever gets triggered. In fact, that's the whole point of the trigger. Anyone who advocates otherwise is a liar.

Sam Stein and Ryan Grim

Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics


President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...

Sam Stein

Message To Leadership: Rockefeller Re-States His Opposition To Triggers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


One of the Senate's foremost champions of the public insurance option re-asserted on Friday his opposition to a compromise approach that would establi...

Right-Wing Demands Obama Fire Kevin Jennings for Helping Gay Teens Not Kill Themselves

Julie Farby | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Julie Farby

Kevin Jennings, Educator And Homosexual Everyone knows, much like the thought of women working, the idea of homosexuals being anything other than a ...

White House Calls Out Fox And Glenn Beck On Olympics

Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics


In a new post on the official White House blog, Online Programs Director Jesse Lee calls out Fox News for perpetuating lies about President Obama's pu...

The Normalizing of the Presidency

David D. Burstein | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics


David D. Burstein

Barack Obama might be one of the most normal presidents we have had in years. His connectedness to the real world is one of the things that made him appealing as a candidate.

Sam Stein

Paterson: "I Don't Know" If White House Told Me To Drop Campaign (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics


New York Governor David Paterson said on Sunday that he didn't know whether or not the White House told him not to run for re-election, before ultimat...

Sam Stein

White House Denies Pushing Trigger Option, Dem Groups Concur

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


The White House, along with several progressive groups and high-ranking Democrats, is pushing back against reports that the administration is advancin...

Sam Stein

Cheney Accuses Obama Of Launching "Intensely Partisan" Torture Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


Dick Cheney left little on the table during a taped interview Fox News Sunday, accusing the Obama White House pursuing an "intensely partisan" investi...

No-Drama Obama's Rules to Live by

Julie Farby | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Julie Farby

Turns out even an unflappable man-God like Obama is human after all: he even has a list of pet peeves (gasp!).

Sam Stein

Lieberman: Using Reconciliation For Health Care A "Real Mistake"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics


Senator Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn.) said on Sunday that he thinks it would be a "real mistake" if Democrats used the parliamentary maneuver known as r...

Sam Stein

Snowe Says No Public Option, White House Says "That's Democracy"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


The Senate Finance Committee will not include a public option in its health care bill, one of the key Republican negotiators said on Friday -- to whi...

Insurers' Stocks Rise As Public Option Prospects Fade

Market Watch | Robert Schroeder | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Odds are growing longer for the public health-insurance option that the White House has pushed as part of an overhaul of t...

Rahm Emanuel "Most Influential White House Chief Of Staff In A Generation"?

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics


Seven months after moving into his office in the West Wing, Mr. Emanuel is emerging as perhaps the most influential White House chief of staff in a ge...

What Can Be Done Now on DADT

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


Aubrey Sarvis

Discrimination in our armed forces carries a potent symbolism: It tells an entire class of people that the country is not interested in their service.