School Segregation

Judge Throws Out CPS Desegregation Order

Catalyst Chicago | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago


Late Thursday afternoon, a federal judge scrapped the CPS desegregation consent decree--a move that likely will result in the district abandoning the ...

So We Can't Have Single Payer for Health Care, But How About Single Payer for Education?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

To produce education reform that is reform in more than name only, we need to look past our own political backyards at what might lie on the other side of the mountain. What I see on that other side is a single-payer education system. It's simple, sensible and, above all, just.  READ MORE

Has Obama's Handling of the Bank Bailout Undermined Health Care Reform?   One of the consequences of the one-sided bailout of Wall Street is the way it has undermined public trust in government.  Much of the health care anger is a proxy for bailout anger.  If we don't learn from the botched bailout, we are in danger of getting the same reform-in-name-only outcome on health care. READ MORE

Watch: Arianna Discusses Ted Kennedy's Potential Successors on Countdown

Watch: Arianna Discusses All Things HuffPost with MarketWatch's Jon Friedman (Part One, Part Two)