Planned Parenthood Dumps Bush Rubber Stamp Susan Collins
It's the first time Planned Parenthood has backed the challenger to a senator it had previously endorsed.
It's the first time Planned Parenthood has backed the challenger to a senator it had previously endorsed.
Michael Markarian | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
Passage of this modest, but crucial, ballot measure in California will surely change the calculus for farm animals elsewhere by demonstrating that Americans have no tolerance for gratuitous cruelty.
Howie Klein | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics
There is no getting around the fact that the Republican Party mania against the federal regulatory agenda protecting consumers and workers has been part of the McCain gestalt.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics
This past week provided another example of the frictions surrounding Democratic politicians, third party groups that support them, and messaging aroun...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Chuck Schumer was not expecting an in-person interview. Towards the end of a quintessentially boiling Washington D.C. day, the affable and intense New...
New York Times | Carl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON -- Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said anxiety over fuel oil costs is at crisis proportions in her state. Senator Amy Klobucha...
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home
Joe Lieberman's homeland security committee lobbed a biased bombshell last week in its report on the domestic threat of violent Islam. U.S. Islamophobia has consequences. Take the case of Debbie Almontaser.
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home
A stacked senate committee on homeland security today issued the first of a series of reports on "homegrown terrorism and violent Islamist extremism." It's readymade election-year swiftboating material.
Howie Klein | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
I was very proud in 1997 when Human Rights Campaign gave me a leadership equality award. After I learned more about them, I smashed my award and removed them from my will.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Senator Olympia Snowe put out a statement condemning the so-called "free trade" deal with Colombia. Maine is not a state that is going to be very friendly to so-called "free trade".
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics
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Howie Klein | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics