Tammy Duckworth Celebrates 'Alive Day' Five Years After Black Hawk Crash
Five years ago this week, an insurgent shot down the Army Black Hawk helicopter that Tammy Duckworth was co-piloting in Iraq. Now an assistant secreta...
Five years ago this week, an insurgent shot down the Army Black Hawk helicopter that Tammy Duckworth was co-piloting in Iraq. Now an assistant secreta...
The New York Times | Peter Baker | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Before there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless White House chief of staff, there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless House Democratic campaign strategist ...
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
During the last administration, it took major scandals to get anything fixed in the Department, and then it was never corrected at this level.
Hal Donahue | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Early in my service I was told, "When a jet crashes, often the boots are all we can find." Such was my not-so-subtle introduction to the need for end of life planning.
ProPublica | Posted 06.01.2009 | Chicago
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who was head of Chicago's public schools, promises not to participate in any matter "in which Chicago Public Schoo...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A Republican senator has delayed President Barack Obama's nomination of Tammy Duckworth, an injured Iraq war helicopter pilot, to b...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Tammy Duckworth, the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs director, was nominated by President Barack Obama on Tuesday to serve ...
Jeff Norman | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
It now seems fair to consider the possibility that Reid and his allies might have decided to oppose any Blogojevich appointee ( as an act of political vindictiveness
thehill.com | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago
Barack Obama believed that seven candidates were "highly qualified" to succeed him in the Senate, but the two people Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D)...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics
Why was Rod Blagojevich so convinced his deals were being shot down by the Obama folks, when the Obama folks claim they didn't even know deals were being suggested?
Gautam Dutta | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
If it wants to maintain control, the Democratic Party simply cannot afford to take any community for granted, whether Asian American, Latino, or African American.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
A grassroots effort is underway for Barack Obama to appoint Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq War and onetime congressional candidate, as Secreta...
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 12.09.2008 | Chicago
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Indictment News Updates, 12-9-08: ILLINOIS GOVERNOR CHARGED WITH TRYING TO SELL OBAMA'S SEAT ARRESTED THIS MO...
Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago
Lynn Sweet reports that Gov. Blagojevich is "mulling appointing a search committee to advise him on who he should appoint" to replace Barack Obama in...
CQ Politics | Catharine Richert | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago
No matter who wins the White House, somebody's leaving the Senate. Should the Democratic ticket win, Illinois and Delaware are in for replacement sen...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
Many may not know that Obama's name was placed in nomination by a man who identified himself as "a life-long Republican and an Iraq war veteran." His name is Michael Wilson; he served as an Air Force medic.
Bob Burnett | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Wednesday - So far, all of the Democrats' Denver convention objectives have been met: the convention logistics have been flawless; Michelle Obama's sp...
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
If unity is what the Democrats were looking for, they got it. The roll call vote was not expected to yield any surprises, and yet it did -- the timing was exquisite.
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
When Alexi Giannoulias was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the mid-1990s, one of the guys he would play pick-up basketball games with...
Jennifer Bogut | Posted 07.29.2008 | Home
Who is in your dream Administration, and what role would they play? I JUST finished tabulating the results you sent in as part of our new "What's Your Take" community feature.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
For the third straight day, Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has raised a ruckus over comments suggesting that his military service may not, i...
The Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics