How addictive is the game of politics and power? My unscientific study indicates that crack cocaine is nothing when compared to political power. Let...
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Underneath the stomach-turning Clintonian strategy for winning the nomination are little passion plays playing out -- about the state of the nation, and the state of its soul-sick psyche.
Eric Deggans | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
Now that there's the kind of candidate for president folks like Martin Luther King probably dreamed about in 1964, the first black American billionaire thinks it makes sense to take him down?
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
Younger black activists and elected officials are unlikely to feel any loyalty to the Clintons, are engaged by a post-baby-boom candidate and feel more in sync with Obama on the issues.
Ari Berman | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
Clinton may not share their views, but as she courts union workers, it's fair to ask why she deploys anti-labor individuals on behalf of her ostensibly pro-labor campaign.
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Hillary Clinton supporter--and the reason for television shows like "Hot Ghetto Mess"--Robert Johnson apologized for making a reference to Senator Bar...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.18.2008 | Media
Matthews like so many other yakking heads has gorged off the Hillary loathe industry. The industry has been by far the biggest growth industry in recent American politics.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
If I had told you that Iraq would come roaring back to the forefront of the campaign, how many of you would've guessed that that candidate that brought it there would be Hillary Clinton?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.15.2008 | 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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.15.2008 | 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.
Bob Franken | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
It's one thing if Bill Clinton wants to be petulant about news coverage. In fact, he may be right that we've been harder on his candidate, but he sure needs to wag his finger in the right direction.
Washington Post | Frank Ahrens | Posted 01.15.2008 | 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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.15.2008 | 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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, injected himself into the middle of a flaring campaign controversy on Su...
Tom Gerdy | Posted 09.03.2008 | Living