Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison
Although we are not always aware of it, meaning is present in every moment, even in what may be viewed as the darkest hours of our lives.
Although we are not always aware of it, meaning is present in every moment, even in what may be viewed as the darkest hours of our lives.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...
Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The man at the gas station who hands over Marlboro Lights is never called the scum of the earth. The makers of Oxycontin, Valium, and Vicodin -- the biggest drug dealers in the word -- spend no time in prison cells.
AP | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York auditors have identified 11 state prison inmates who collected about $30,000 in unemployment insurance benefits they wer...
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living
MIAMI — In her online profile, Paula Jones says she is 42, "nonjudgmental" and likes fishing, gardening and cuddling. There's a catch, though. J...
Erika Wood | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Four million Americans with past criminal convictions are out of prison and living in the community -- working, paying taxes and raising families. 35 states continue to disenfranchise people who are not in prison, often for decades and sometimes for life.
Pat Nolan | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Prison rape has long been a staple of jokes on late night TV, but otherwise it has been ignored as an unseemly but intractable problem of our prisons.
Pat Hardy | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living
From the time I was a Girl Scout, helping out seemed to be what one did as part of being a responsible citizen in society.
Randall Amster | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
Money is the means to everything from food to sex, so it's no surprise what people are willing to do to obtain it, from criminal activities to simply ignoring the rising tide.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday that a convicted rapist has no constitutional right to test biological evidence used at his trial i...
Richard Klass | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
As a kid I was a Red Sox fan. Still am. I was not quite 12 years old in 1952 when Jimmy Piersall broke in as a rookie outfielder. One of the more ...
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment
Pomegranates and Myrrh is a sensitive film by one Palestinian filmmaker about one Palestinian point of view. However, some in the Arab world are calling for the movie to be banned.
Gabriel London | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
With prisons running at just under double capacity for the last decade, judges have ruled that California has been unable to meet the health and mental care needs of its whopping 157,000 inmates.
Ginny Sloan | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
It is easy -- but wrong -- to say that we can save money by slashing government funding for lawyers for defendants who cannot afford to hire their own.
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Style
You will never escape the fact that the nurses are stealing tic-tacs out of Grandma's purse when she isn't paying attention. Shouldn't you get something for it?
H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
As the rest of the world is standing by waiting to see us take responsibility for Gitmo, we should release the Uighur detainees into the United States and grant them provisional asylum.
Elisabeth Braw | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
Elisabeth Braw wrote this article for ...
Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
In March 2008, I asked readers of HuffPost to reach out to reporters and bloggers to help tell the story of Turk Sabri Bogday, who at the time faced unjust execution in Saudi Arabia.
The Guardian | Peter Walker, Mark Tran | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
EU countries could be willing to help the US close down Guantánamo Bay by taking in released detainees despite the doubts of some member states, the ...
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Imprisoned in the late 1970s for allegedly murdering two FBI agents, Leonard Peltier has never been given a fair trial.
John Terzano | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
Tim Masters was fifteen years old at the time of his alleged crime, and was not convicted until 12 years later. He languished in prison for almost ten years, and spent half his life trying to prove his innocence.
Chris Kelly | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics
Sarah Palin is what you might call "intellectually incurious." I think when Joe the Plumber is talking to Palin he has to slow it down. So where'd she come up with her fancy-pants go-to quote?
Dave Fratello | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Say you've got a huge prison crisis in your state. Who you gonna call? In California, you might call the five living governors together. And Thursday, someone did.
Betty Brink | Posted 11.29.2008 | Living
The medical neglect in our prisons is too-often accepted by the public as just another price paid by those who commit crimes.
Dave Fratello | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
On crime and prisons, the Golden State lags behind many others, with a costly and overburdened prison system that now consumes more than $10 billion each year.
Alex Pattakos | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living