MoveOn.org is asking its members to write to President Obama in opposition to Pentagon/McCain/Lieberman demands for more U.S. troops to be sent to Afghanistan.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
In New York, Paterson is down 17 points in general election polling and a whopping 46 percent in a primary. Could it really be that bad for John Cherry in Michigan? Actually, yes.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
For Chris Wallace to imply that the Obama team is any tougher on the media than, say, the Bush administration, is an absolute joke.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
***UPDATE 9/22/09*** I haven't found another embeddable version yet, but sharp-eyed reader Mark points out that you can watch the video here. ***UPDA...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.
Baratunde Thurston | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
I asked Robin, a college classmate of mine, if I could video tape her story, and she proceeded to rattle off five tangible ways her life has been improved by the efforts of our president.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
In comparison to all the good ACORN does, the House's action Thursday, specifically the role played by the Democratic majority, is shameful. It's truly incredible that Democrats aided in this travesty.
Les Francis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Unfortunately, political coarseness is a bipartisan affliction. But the recent episodes have been more glaring and more egregious.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
The Baucus plan avoids exclusions on pre-existing conditions and does not limit costs to a reasonable level -- which makes it unworkable.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
The teabaggers are apoplectic because this isn't just about health care. This is about the values of a government.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment
For all the pre-publicity, the Jay Leno Show is still the same Jay Leno Show. It just has a different name.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
While the media covered a lot of the 9/11 memorials, concerts and memories, it seemed as if the legacy of Katrina got very little attention.
Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
After President Obama gave his speech marking the one year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers on Monday afternoon, he and Bill Clinton had...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Rep. Wilson is not some civilian who shouted his dissent at a truck stop rally. He was in a holy place which is the political equivalent of a church or a temple.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Pizarchik's hearing on Tuesday will be a litmus test of the Obama administration's--and the US Senate's--commitment to appointing and confirming agency directors who believe in science and law in our nation's coalfields.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
I apologize for a prior inadvertent misstatement in the piece below that Fox News had not carried the president's health-care reform speech Wednesday ...
New York Daily News | By Michael Mcauliff and Kenneth R. Bazinet | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON - President Obama energized House liberals with talk of a public health care option, but fell short of capturing the hearts of Republicans ...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The speech was brilliantly crafted, forcefully delivered and very specific about the benefits and the costs, while also dispelling the "bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost."
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Massey Energy's brutal attacks on coalfield residents and the judicial system have drawn national criticism.
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Conservatives across the board should be reminded that ideological differences with the new commander in chief is no excuse to abandon core principles of our Democratic Republic.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
If you serve a right-wing Republican president you can write or say anything you want. But if you serve a liberal Democratic president, like the "pinks" who fell to McCarthyism, you can be taken down.
Doug Bandow | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
The world has turned out to be a lot less malleable and willing to adjust to American preferences than the president may have thought before taking office.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
As expected and feared by those on the right, Obama's speech to schoolchildren, I'm embarrassed to say, is truly shamefully partisan and full of dangerous radical views. Here it is.
David Wild | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment
The following is a series of increasingly desperate tweets for help this parent was forced to make during this frightening Labor Day weekend.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
How easy to be cynical on this Labor Day, and declare it a day that will live in infamy for coal miners and coalfield residents and green job advocates across the nation.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.25.2009 | World