Robert Johnson

AIG Autopsy: Eliot Spitzer Calls For Investigation Like Swiss UBS

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 12.20.2009 | Business


Inquiring minds want to know ... where's the inquiry? Three prominent former prosecutors are calling for the government to make AIG release interna...

"There Is a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets in"

Melanie Drane | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books


Melanie Drane

Mending is always accompanied by an element of risk. Something may function again, but differently, so that every successful re-use is accompanied by a sense of luck and relief.

George Soros Battles Free Market Zealots With New Fund, Economic Journal: Newsweek

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


Large swaths of economics are going to have to be rethought on the basis of what's happened." So said Larry Summers, President Obama's chief economic ...

Obama 2012

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home


Daniel Bruno Sanz

I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.

Thank God It's Thursday: Book Expo '09 & The 27s plus The Singular Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment


Mike Ragogna

This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.

New Tunes On Monday: Green Day, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Tori Amos, Kate Voegele, and Mat Kearney

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.17.2009 | Entertainment


Mike Ragogna

Though Tori Amos' career may have suffered from being overly prolific and recording some questionable cover songs, every new album is a bouquet of interesting, intelligent songs for her loyal fans.

Study Shows Politics Worse Than Crack Cocaine

Tom Gerdy | Posted 10.04.2008 | Living


Tom Gerdy

How addictive is the game of politics and power? My unscientific study indicates that crack cocaine is nothing when compared to political power. Let...

BET Founder Apologizes For His Portrayal Of A Black Man

236 | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Hillary Clinton supporter--and the reason for television shows like "Hot Ghetto Mess"--Robert Johnson apologized for making a reference to Senator Bar...

Sam Stein

Clinton Defends, Then Criticizes, BET Founder's Controversial Remark

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


At the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday, Senator Hillary Clinton said she took BET founder Robert Johnson at his word when he said he wasn't ...

Jason Linkins

Richard Cohen Suggests Obama Has A 'Farrakhan Test,' Obama Responds

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Cohen's whole piece today is an identity politics cheap shot masquerading as high-minded outrage. It's a masterwork of tortured logic, to boot.

BET Founder Defends Obama Comments

Washington Post | Frank Ahrens | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A day after his remarks about Sen. Barack Obama helped fuel a rancorous debate about race in the Democratic presidential contest, an unapologetic Robe...

Sam Stein

Kerry Blasts Clinton Camp's "Negative, Petty" Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, took aim at Hillary Clinton on Monday, saying her criticism of Barack Obama's stance on the...

Sam Stein

Pro-Clinton BET Founder Attacks Obama, Hints At Past Drug Use

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, injected himself into the middle of a flaring campaign controversy on Su...