Here in the United States, we are watching our economy unravel, but no matter the incompetency of the current administration, or the questionable policies of the incoming one, there is no chance that in our lifetime we will see the headline, "175 Million Americans Face Starvation."

Right now, in...

The United States of America has a document called the Constitution. It is meant to be one of the key governing documents of our country. We can forgive it for hiding for its own safety over the last eight years, but rumor has it that it is planning on making...

In today's New York Times, an editorial hits one of my pet issues and peeves: how collectively as a country and a society, we let down our veterans, every single day.

We insist on their sacrificed, and praise their service, so don't equal their service with funding, support and...

At a time of glad tidings and cheer, it has hard to be very optimistic about what we face as a country. Americans, credit-card alcoholics at an all-you-can-charge buffet, have over-indulged to the point of self-destruction; businesses life-supported by cheap credit and currently the US Government, the taxpayer, well you,...

Money talks. And yesterday it screamed that legacy media, and the legacy politics that goes hand in hand with them, is in its death throes.

The gap between the potent future of new media and the dinosaur that is legacy media first became a chasm and is now the...

Oh, and 2,000 children, children will be infected with HIV.

How's your day going?

Here, we are recognizing World AIDS Day, but in Africa, ground zero for AIDS, on the ground in Rwanda, calendars are pretty much useless, today is another day to survive, like so many other days.

For...

Last week, I was on MSNBC discussing the 'lefty' blogosphere's angry reaction to the Lieberman debacle. To MSNBC's credit, I wasn't the only blogger they had on to review this issue, Jane Hamsher and Ari Melber also made appearances (you can see all three of us at the bottom of...

As many of you know, the primary NewsLadder site has more than 20 subladders that feed into it and today, like I do every Friday, when I went by to see the top stories, it was funny to see literally two sides of the same story.
Henry...

Change clearly is in the eyes of the beholder. Some viewed President-elect Obama's mandate for change to be a mandate for reconciliation and bipartisanship, or a change from politics as usual in Washington, DC.

I view the mandate for change in much simpler terms, it was a mandate for change...

Immediately before the election, I started a conversation with Chad Rigetti about what would happen with the then presumed winner Barack Obama's cabinet appointments, my interest was partially business, we were launching the Cabinet NewsLadder right after the election, and partially personal, I wanted to see how John Kerry...

Friday morning is NewsLadder time and it's been a busy week, with lots of good news, good traffic and great stories bubbling up from the best of independent media.

Let's start with the new NewsLadders for our review.

Joe Bodell from Minnesota Campaign Report reached out...

Never one to let an opportunity to mislead the people of Georgia, Saxby Chambliss has requested that he actually be excused from the December 2nd runoff against Jim Martin and just be declared the winner.

It is rumored that in private statements, Saxby has claimed that the knee that allowed...

On Friday mornings, I take a look at NewsLadder and see what's up. Last week, it was all John McCain, you might remember him, picked a VP who thinks Africa is a country and is now sitting in Arizona wondering what happened.

This week, on Wednesday, we launched the...

Over the past eight years, our standing in the world has plummeted and while there are many important decisions to made in the coming days, Secretary of the Treasury for example, there are two areas where I have a touch more experience and two men I believe, strongly, are the...

Think about this a second.

In 1992, President-Elect Bill Clinton, our party's last President-Elect, set about the process of picking a cabinet and, to be honest, he made some great choices. However, it's hard to imagine, but in 1992, no one was blogging about their favorites, no one was watching...

Four years ago, I woke up in Cleveland Ohio and hit the road with Cam Kerry, Laurie David, Larry David and Kristen Breitweiser with the songs of Bruce Springsteen still ringing in my ears from the night before.

Twenty four hours after that, I sat in Boston and watched John...

Friday at noon is when I check on NewsLadder and see what the top story is. Over the past month, we've had a remarkably successful run with the John McCain NewsLadder and since all signs point to this particular ladder not being so useful after next Tuesday, I...

Less than one week out, the time to go one on one with your friends in Swing States is right now. In the past, this might have meant a quick phone call but now, it means sending an email with just a piece of remarkable content that is out there.

Four years ago, following the devastating loss on November 2nd, a series of meetings and get-togethers took place which lead to, among other things, the creation of this site.

In those meetings, the question as often asked:

Could a site be created that would be our version of the Drudge...

Friday at noon, I stop by NewsLadder and see what is the top story, as voted up by everyone who posts a story, reads a story, makes a comment or votes something up or down.

Last week at this time, the top story was about the 10 Differences...