The world loved the Rainbow Nation success story and chose, along with many South Africans, to ignore that reconciliation can easily be used to justify impunity.
Robert Blair | Posted 08.12.2009 | World
Nicholas Kristof asked, "What on earth is happening in Liberia?" I ask Liberians what they think.
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment
The Sosa disclosure has spawned a debate whether the time has come to lay out all the remaining 102 names on the list and get on with the post-steroid era.
Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
The President's refusal to investigate the Bush administration's policies and actions relating to the Iraq War is the embodiment of Vulcan logic -- free from messy human emotions and moral obligation.
Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
In spite of all the recent news, some in Washington still need to be sold on the idea of creating a truth commission to investigate Bush-Cheney administration.
Russ Baker | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
Official investigations of the Bush administration are on the way. Politicians will appear heroic. The media will get a hot story they won't have to do a bit of digging for. And the rest of us?
Martin Garbus | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
We should go ahead with criminal prosecutions. It is the only way, through grand juries, subpoenas and trials, to get the facts and help America clean up some of its recent past.
Judith Ellis | Posted 03.31.2009 | Business
The documentary, I.O.U.S.A, was recently brought to my attention and it will probably be the most sobering clip that you will ever see about the state of the economy.
New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 03.25.2009 | Politics
Two days after his re-election in 1864, with Union victory in the Civil War assured, Abraham Lincoln stood at a White House window to address a boiste...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
In an interview with Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi fielded a number of questions on whether Congress would act to ...
Sen. Patrick Leahy | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
The Huffington Post community has played a vital role pursuing, demanding, and exposing the Bush-Cheney administration's numerous abuses. But there's still more we don't know, and more we must uncover.
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
It's time for Congress to hold the intelligence community accountable and Senator Leahy may be offering just the means to accomplish that task.
Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
The idea of truth in government may seem naïve -- especially after President Bush's legacy of secrecy -- but it's an idea we should never lose sight of and should never stop striving for.
Frank Naif | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
Making sure that ordinary national security drones aren't vilified or set up to take the fall for their bosses today will strengthen tomorrow's national security.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.
Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
President-elect Obama has promised that he won't lie about national problems. I hope this promise extends to recent events, too.
Yvonne Malan | Posted 11.20.2009 | World