Gatekeeper needed immediately. -Must be able to stay awake during shift -Someone who can distinguish invited guests from party crashers -Demons...
Posted 11.26.2009 | Style
The White House has released two dozen new behind-the-scenes photos from Wednesday's (very full) day of festivities around the arrival of Indian Prime...
Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
Tareq and Michaele Salahi, aspiring members of the cast of a reality show called "The Real Housewives of DC," crashed Tuesday's state dinner at the Wh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...
Bob Franken | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Unlike the wide coverage given to the tedious sessions President Obama has held about Afghanistan, the planning for the White House State Dinner for...
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
The White House released the list of those attending the State Dinner honoring India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. But it's not just India's night -- there are a lot of folks that could push other agendas in Obama Land.
Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department ...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Seeking firmer footing for U.S.-India relations, President Barack Obama tried Tuesday to calm India's fears about Asian rival China...
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style
It's fascinating to see how presentation and palates have evolved over the years, and how historical context and presidential personality all influence this facet of American showmanship. The Kennedys tout the virtues of aspic, the Franklin Roosevelts scandalized the polite world with an entrée, and George Washington gave new meaning to the phrase "no frills."
AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
LONDON — An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration...
Washington Post | Matthew Dowd | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
President Sarah Palin. To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
If the White House and congressional leaders get their way, the vaunted new oversight council charged with overseeing systemic risk in the financial m...
Pollster | Charles Franklin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
...support for Obama has not plummeted among independents, and that needs to be clarified before it becomes erroneous conventional wisdom. It especial...
Pat Choate | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics
President Obama does not seem to understand seems that the single most important concern for most Americans is the vast and growing national joblessness.
Posted 11.23.2009 | World
President Obama may soon find himself in an increasingly uncomfortable position when it comes to funding the anticipated buildup of U.S. troops in Afg...
New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.'s on terms that seem too good to be...
Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
The United States will make $1.3 billion available for a program that rewards Afghanistan's anti-Taliban militias with development money, according to...
TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...
Wall Street Journal | PETER SPIEGEL and STEPHEN FIDLER | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
U.S. and European estimates of the new troops they may get from NATO allies vary from 3,000 to 7,000. Those would complement the additional U.S. force...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.
Russell Simmons | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
We need more people to speak out and to stand publicly with President Obama. Millions who voted are now way too silent, too passive and too willing to be patient with injustice.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.
Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver
I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.
Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 11.26.2009 | Comedy