Today, President-elect Obama is moving forward with what he has billed as his top priority: an economic stimulus package called the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan."
Tom Hayden | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
Leaders of presidential transition teams are expected to be discreet, tight-lipped, button-down, servants of power, but not quite so in the case of Jo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.22.2008 | Media
Last Friday, blogger Matt Yglesias penned a rather innocuous post that, in part, criticized a centrist messaging factory called Third Way of whom you'...
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
There is no better time for implementing an equity agenda than now. 37 million people live in poverty and many more are one paycheck away. All it takes is one health crisis or a downsizing at the office.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
Ayman al Zawahiri's unwelcomed reemergence from his cave today is a sad reminder how much the Bush Administration's failures are being dumped into Obama's lap.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.09.2008 | Home
One thing volunteering for the Obama campaign in southern Virginia reiterated to me is that racism is alive and well in this country and there's somet...
Kathlyn Stone | Posted 10.28.2008 | Home
While Obama's health care plan would spend roughly 20 percent more than McCain's, it would cover more people and cost less per capita.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
Graham Hill | Posted 09.23.2008 | Green
It's hard to focus on anything else but elections and the state of the economy, yet sadly the media mainstream and the candidates seem to speak in the...
Adele Stan | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
Huckabee, embracing a position that seems designed to rile his fellow social conservatives, has long been a proponent of music and arts education in the public schools.
Robert Naiman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, MoveOn and the Center for American Progress teamed up to call out McCain and Republicans for pretending that handing out huge sacks of cash to Big Oil constitutes an energy policy.
Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
Big Oil makes more money when prices go up and that money is nicely spread among its allies in Congress. Trusting these guys is like trusting your neighborhood pusher.
Washington Post | Chris Cilizza | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Former senator John Edwards (N.C.) remains on the political sidelines but that isn't stopping his wife, Elizabeth, from rejoining the fray as a senior...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
As the war in Iraq completes its fifth year this week, The Huffington Post is featuring interviews with and essays by those journalists, elected offic...
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
Joe Cirincione is one of the great, high energy intellectuals in Washington who knows that the stakes are big in Washington -- and that the policy battles we engage in really matter.
Van Jones | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
For those of us who are a part of the movement for green-collar jobs, Sunday's Democratic presidential debate was a real watershed moment.
Tom Hayden | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics
If "think globally, act locally" ever made any sense, this is the time, and you, Barack Obama, are the prophet. If you want to be mainstream, look to the forgotten mainstream.
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
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Lest you think the appointment of dreamboat doctor Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General was going to...
Greta Van Susteren has taken to her blog, GretaWire, to again hit CNN — this...
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
The Progress Report | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics