Health Insurers Could Bypass Some Key Reforms
Legislators are designing this new insurance marketplace to protect consumers from many of the pitfalls and inequities in the current system. But even...
Legislators are designing this new insurance marketplace to protect consumers from many of the pitfalls and inequities in the current system. But even...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
A prominent South Carolina conservative offered support for Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday after a local Republican party censured the s...
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
This must sting a bit. Sarah Palin's newest conspiracy theory on the "disturbing" redesign of U.S. coins was too much, even for Fox News -- on Tuesda...
Anne Mai Bertelsen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Parents born after 1970 don't know about these diseases first hand. They have the luxury of protection and ignorance: they grew up with vaccines and without pandemics.
Steve Marmel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Does Michele Bachmann get to continue walking around like she's not complicit in the death of census worker Bill Sparkman? Or do we finally start holding people accountable for their words and actions?
AP | MIKE BAKER and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
FORT HOOD, Texas — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and c...
AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who ...
AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who ...
David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
I received email after email from HuffPost readers... furious that Senator Kyl doesn't understand the consequences for ordinary Americans who can't afford insurance or medical treatment.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who denied victims of assault the right to bring their case to court is i...
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
In briefs, the battle lines have been drawn. On the one hand is the government, endorsing Bush-era policies. And for the Uighurs, there is a Boston-based attorney and his team.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The battle against the health insurance industry is steadily intensifying. House Democrats have formally scheduled a vote to revoke the industry's che...
David Quigg | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Lt. Col. David Frakt said Congress is still behaving unconstitutionally with regard to the right of the Executive branch and the Judiciary to order the release of prisoners from Guantanamo.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
For the past few weeks Republicans have latched onto the $1,761 energy tax lie to oppose clean energy legislation.
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Despite recently losing authority over agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Tuesday that he will "continue to crack down on illegal immigration" by enforcing state laws.
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO and current Republican candidate for Governor of California, has been under fire recently for her "unacceptable" (her...
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
If the rationale for not releasing the Yemenis from Guantánamo was extended to the U.S. prison system, no prisoner would ever be released at the end of their sentence, because prison "might have radicalized" them.
Charles Butler | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Over the last several weeks we've heard our national Democratic leaders make false, misleading and inflammatory statements about the conduct of peacefully assembled Americans.
Sen. Michael Bennet | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver
Families and small businesses in Colorado can't survive another decade in which health care costs rise by 97%, as they did over the last decade.
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media
Earlier this week, our own Ryan Grim reported on the incredibly true story of how Congress, in its zealous race to shower ACORN with digestive leaving...
Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics