The campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain both held conference calls Wednesday afternoon to hammer each other on national security. McCain's mess...
Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
This news will be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret prison on Diego Garcia.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
John McCain's chief advisor, Charlie Black, ignited a firestorm with his comments that another terrorist attack on the U.S. would create a "big advant...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
The Senate Intelligence Committee's 200-page "Phase II" report on how the White House used -- and abused -- pre-war intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq is a stinging rebuke.
Malou Innocent | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
The blowback from McClellan's tell-all illustrates the administration's intolerance of dissent. The lesson to take away is that no president can govern effectively if they take criticism as disloyalty.
Mary Lyon | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Scott McClellan's new confessional that's pointed the finger at Bush administration figures in the Valerie Plame scandal reminds me of something my hu...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
On Friday's Real Time, Bill Maher raised the question of Condi Rice supposedly testing the waters to be picked as John McCain's running mate.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
Shenon doesn't attack government ineptitude for 9/11 head-on. He reveals the terrifying extent of it through a series of gripping vignettes.
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
The runaway train of the Democratic Party needs to stop. I think it was refreshing to see that Hillary recently mentioned the concept of a unity ticket, and I am dismayed that Obama would not consider a it yet.
TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
You've heard from President Bush over and over and over and over again about the imminent danger the country is in. And you've heard from the director...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
Let me share this recent comment forwarded to me by Monica Gabrielle of the September 11th Advocates
Michael Schwartz | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics
Without denigrating Al Gore's work on global warming, let's not forget his history as an altogether too typical American politician.
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics