As President Obama prepares to announce his new strategy in Afghanistan, it is vital to note that success or failure will not be determined by our military footprint alone. With mounting press speculation regarding a possible increase in U.S. troop levels, we should consider General McChrystal's warning that "focusing on...
Andy Borowitz | Posted November 24, 2009 | Comedy
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Former CNN host Lou Dobbs said today that he was seriously considering running for president after being urged to do so by an imaginary friend.
In a conference call with reporters, Mr. Dobbs said that he had not thought about seeking public office until...
Alec Baldwin | Posted November 24, 2009 | Politics
Didn't you know, all along, that the goal of U.S. policy in Iraq was about accessing oil?
Not oil as in those production levels at the onset of the Bush era incursion in March, 2003. But newer, stronger, American-style production levels. American oil companies had been forbidden from exploring and...
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted November 24, 2009 | Politics
I believe that Republicans are poised to cement their complete opposition to everything Obama and reap a huge political win by twisting their political principles to oppose further escalation of troops in Afghanistan. Unless, of course, Obama can be convinced not to send more troops.
Obama's decision about whether to...
William Bradley | Posted November 24, 2009 | World
Tony Blair's recent travails, last week over his bid to become the first president of the European Union and today with the start of Britain's Iraq War inquiry, stand as something of a cautionary tale for President Barack Obama. Blair was long the favorite to become the first president of...
Bennett Ramberg, Ph.D. | Posted November 24, 2009 | World
As President Obama grapples with sending additional forces to Afghanistan he would do well to ponder the last time a superpower confronted the decision and how U.S. intelligence evaluated the odds of success. That country, of course, was the Soviet Union that found itself in a decade-long quagmire following its...
Lee Camp | Posted November 24, 2009 | Comedy
Dave Zirin | Posted November 24, 2009 | Sports
On Sunday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made a startling concession to medical ethics, one resisted by all of his predecessors. Goodell said that when a player sustains a concussion, teams will now be required to seek advice from "independent" neurologists. As the commissioner said on NBC's Football Night in...
Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted November 24, 2009 | Living
Mammography is one of the most oversold and understudied technologies in medical history. To continue to assert that mammography will save lives flies in the face of huge numbers of studies on the topic. Individual doctors treat individual women but do not and cannot study the patterns of disease in...
David Wild | Posted November 24, 2009 | Entertainment
Even in trying times, life is not a thankless task -- at least it should not be. So here to share with all of my Huffington Post friends is my personal Thanksgiving playlist, designed to help put us all in the proper mindset for Thursday's holiday, and arguably for every...
Barbara R. Arnwine | Posted November 24, 2009 | Business
As part of the Roosevelt Institute's 10-part series on the Jobs Crisis, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog from Nov. 12-25, I was asked to reflect on what can be done to get Americans working again. Here's my take.
As the economy continues its long...
Jennifer Donahue | Posted November 24, 2009 | Politics
As the Senate considers health care legislation, voters at home are waiting. Waiting for the holidays, waiting for paychecks, waiting for jobs. Postponing trips, postponing purchases, postponing college, postponing weddings. Postponing anything that costs money.
When Members of the House and Senate return home, they will probably face the wrath...
Mark Green | Posted November 24, 2009 | Politics
Sarah Palin's rhetoric against the East and West Coast elites -- and liberal media -- appeals to aggrieved "ordinary Americans", in her phrase. Sounds like "middle Americans" and "the silent majority." Sarah Palin meet Richard Nixon. So alike. But.
As Palin selectively tours the country with her...
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted November 24, 2009 | Style
Tonight President Obama and Mrs. Obama will host their first state dinner at the White House, honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Few events are more glamorous than these; they make Vanity Fair's famous annual Oscar party seems like kindergarten in comparison. A thousand egos must perish on the vine...
Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted November 24, 2009 | Living
It's 2002 all over again, and women are being warned against taking hormone replacement because of its link to breast cancer. Why is history repeating itself? Because we haven't learned an important lesson. Synthetic progestins are not the same as progesterone, and reporting on them as if they confer the...
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted November 24, 2009 | Living
Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has become a beacon of light to her devotees. There is no doubt she wants to do good and that her intentions are meaningful to many. When it comes to popularity she can also certainly sell books.
Words have power to destroy or heal. When...
Richard F. Celeste | Posted November 24, 2009 | World
The summit meeting on November 24 between President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is certain to be a glittering celebration of what has become one of the most strategic relationships of the post-Cold War era. Yet for all the talk about the emerging U.S.-India geopolitical partnership, it is...
David Quigg | Posted November 24, 2009 | Media
The front page of last Friday's edition of The Cleveland Plain Dealer included a story headlined "Photographer destroyed photos of soldiers in the act of killing." Before I type even one sentence more, I want to make clear that I have never ever done anything brave enough...
Cenk Uygur | Posted November 24, 2009 | Politics
Everyone's heard it a hundred times by now. Joe Biden said it when he was on The Daily Show last week. Tim Geithner says it every time he's on television or in a congressional hearing or in the car talking to himself. "We had to do the bailout. We didn't...
Michael Shaw | Posted November 24, 2009 | Media
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March on Washington on MLK Day? Libertarian conventions? 100 year plans?
Using his "latest-book" tour as the field test for...
Sen. Ted Kaufman | Posted November 24, 2009 | World