The PR race between countries is not that different from the arms race. With all this spin -- overt and covert -- what's a poor reader to do? The last thing we should do is sit and spin with it.
Clarence Haynes | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
My suspicion: many women are thrilled by Prince because they readily see themselves in him, and vice versa, and the mutual love is visceral and real.
Robert Rave | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
Will bloggers soon write that Samantha Ronson and Sarah Silverman tweet each other about holding in their pee? Or that Elizabeth Taylor and Kathy Ireland are twitter pals? It's uncharted publicity territory.
David Roberts | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green
There was an online debate between me and Joe Lucas, spokesflack for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. When he received my questions, he ran off like a pansy.
Philip Slater | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
A little more honesty from the PR folks might be appropriate. Something like: "Look, folks, we're the military. Our job is to kill folks. If you're going to get picky about who, send someone else."
Stephanie Keller | Posted 04.24.2009 | Entertainment
One question arises in the Lone Star soaked afterglow of SXSW: Do we Austinites love it or hate it?
Brian Ross | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Republican politicians all seem to be trying their hand at historic re-creationism to transform both the history and future of the Republican party into their own image.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
Bush decries* what he calls "the soft bigotry of low expectations" emanating from Camp McCain as the Palin-Biden debate approaches: * Just kidding:...
David Quigg | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
BOB COSTAS: And we are back. More coverage of the decathlon coming up in just minutes here. But first we're going to quickly send you out to a place t...
Les Gara | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
Palin's nomination has created unusual common ground for Alaskans. Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
Basically, Palin needs to be superhuman: to not only to turn her negative ratings around, but also to somehow make the case for John McCain in a way that he has not yet been able to do for himself.
Bob Guccione, Jr. | Posted 10.18.2008 | Media
The future of media will boil down to, and pivot on the axis of, one thing: imagination -- how creative we are in exploiting technology and, equally important, with content.
Janet Ritz | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
I was in a doctor's waiting room recently, listening to pundits on a big-screen TV, when a middle-aged man turned to me and stated: "Too much spin." ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.
Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton is shifting the paradigm and the narrative. Because the story is everything in the culture of politics, these are important shifts to ...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
The delegate countdown is revealing on both sides. Clinton press releases portray a two-person race. Obama's portray the race as a solitary time trial. In any case, he'll reach the number Tuesday.
David Sirota | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
Clinton is trying to set expectations in advance of the Indiana primary, with the goal of making it seem as if a victory is "unexpected." In reality, she has been ahead from the beginning.
John Feffer | Posted 09.18.2009 | World