Where's the outcry when you learn that more money has been spent to contain this crisis than was used in all of World War 11?
David Quigg | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
When we let shock or panic or a lust for vengeance guide us, we are a greater danger to ourselves than terrorists ever could be. Any terrorists. With any weapon.
Ray Hanania | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
Obama's election as president has changed America and can also make it a far better nation, one that truly embraces the ideals that motivated our founding fathers.
Lynne Glasner | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home
Obama's victory ends the nightmare of the last eight years of the Bush Era, during which time the rule of law has taken a back seat to self-interest and aggrandizement of power.
David Quigg | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
The second-best news I heard during these last few historic days didn't make tears stream like the moment Obama soared above 270, didn't cause me to g...
Jon Klane | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
I'm experiencing something unbelievable, transformational, surreal. It occurs to me that the last time I had this feeling was on the morning of 9/11. Only this time, the towers are going back up.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
Many in the media just can't force some misguided brand of phony objectivity this time around -- not with so much at stake.
Andrew Bacevich | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
A week ago, I asked a four-star U.S. military officer: What exactly is the strategy that guides the Bush administration's conduct of this war? His dismaying, if not exactly surprising, answer: there is none.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
Stone's movie is kind to "W" in that it makes a case that George spent most of his life swimming in water too deep for his swimming skills. The tragedy is that voters never recognized that.
Donna and Ed Bassett | Posted 10.28.2008 | Home
We haven't been hit domestically again by terrorists because of the work of dedicated men and women, domestic and foreign, who have kept us safe -- in spite of the Bush Administration, not because of it.
Mike Farrell | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
John McCain, who claims to put "Country First," should re-read The Ugly American. Sarah Palin can watch the movie.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Tuesday subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey for testimony and documents about the Justice Department's ...
Diane Drake | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
Our "leaders" shamelessly wrap themselves in the flag and pick the nation's collective pockets clean.
Richard Laermer | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media
Welcome to news observation as a sport. It's based on how often and how fast we can celebrate (typically bad) news with each other, and we all want to win as often as possible.
Terry Turchie and Kathleen Puckett | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
The FBI -- which protects civil rights at the same time it ensures national security -- is being systematically taken apart by politicians whose power and position are threatened by FBI investigations.
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
Bush, McCain, and Palin have used portkeys to the collective trauma of 9/11 in an attempt to keep us terrified and under the spell of their resurrective ideologies.
Peter A. Ubel | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
Despite this country's dire situation, health care doesn't win elections, because health care problems never feel as immediate as other threats.
Tony Sachs | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
The past week has been like the scariest elements of 1929 crossed with the scariest elements of 1968. And it made me wonder if Sarah Palin wasn't just whistling Dixie about "the end of days."
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
In this radio interview I discuss my ideas about emotional trauma (RD Stolorow, Trauma and Human Existence, Routledge, 2007) and extend them to the collective trauma of 9/11.
DivineCaroline.com | The White House Project | Posted 10.10.2008 | Living
The year 2008 will go down in the history books as a rollercoaster of an election season, one that has highlighted at times both the strong spirit of ...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
This database reportedly contains the names of Americans who, "often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated."
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
In the wake of 9/11, Americans became much more susceptible to resurrective ideologies that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that have been lost.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
We are, for all intents and purposes, one terrorist attack away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Of the many false arguments deployed by the Bush Administration to justify war with Iraq, perhaps the most blatant was the completely untrue idea that...
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It appears that the Chinese car makers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire...
With the Obamas' impending move to Washintong DC in January, many have begun to speculate...
Danny Schechter | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business