This July 4, lets put election reform on the agenda.
Are you a pro-democracy patriot? I am. Like millions of Americans, I experienced a surge of hope after the most nationally inclusive race for a presidential nomination in US history. It was that hope -- a sense that the...
John McQuaid | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
Colombia's audacious rescue of hostages held by the FARC, including American contractors Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, adds an extra bang to the July 4 holiday. But we shouldn't forget the alarming backstory leading up to their captivity, which reveals a lot about the failings of...
Barack Obama | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
Today, Barack Obama posted a message to supporters on my.barackobama.com about the FISA legislation.
I want to take this opportunity to speak directly to those of you who oppose my decision to support the FISA compromise.
This was not an easy call for me. I know that the...
Russell Simmons | Posted July 3, 2008 | Living
A little over a year ago, I met a very sweet and beautiful girl in Atlanta at a party for my book, Do You!. We talked at length about our vegan diets and common interest in yoga. She too was feeling the shift that is happening in America right now...
Patricia Zohn | Posted July 3, 2008 | Entertainment
It turns out that most of us have dreams about dancing with stars. I am probably the only person in the whole country who has not been watching Dancing with the Stars or So You Think You Can Dance, two very highly rated television shows and I am going to...
Huff TV | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
Part One: Obama Moves to the Middle?; McCain Shakes Up His Campaign:
Part Two: John McCain, Hothead; Cindy McCain Says 'Charge It!':
Bob Cesca | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
The way these last several weeks have shaped up, the dark ride of the Bush years seems as though it's fixing to get darker with every passing, sweltering day.
It's smothering us, yet it remains mostly unspoken probably because we're being presently digested in the belly of it: The...
Alan Fein | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
John McCain has been arguing lately that we are closing in on "victory" in Iraq. It's sometimes hard to understand what "victory" means, especially when we watch Iraq's leader physically embrace Iran's Ahmadinejad, while Ahmadinejad calls for American troops to leave Iraq. Our "victory" is Iran's new best friend....
Alex Leo | Posted July 3, 2008 | Entertainment
Alex Gibney has made some of the most politically charged documentaries of our time and even won an Oscar for his trouble. He's produced films on Enron, the death of the electric car, the Iraq War and Henry Kissinger. And now, in his directorial follow-up to "Taxi to the...
Hilary Rosen | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
Thinking about heading to the beach for the holiday weekend and expecting to pay almost $200 for gas over the course of a few days made me recall a conversation I had two weeks ago with McCain Campaign Manager, Rick Davis. It was at a party in his honor, so...
Beth Arnold | Posted July 3, 2008 | Media
When I read New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt's dressing down of columnist Maureen Dowd, I was appalled. What a sterling example of how not to stand behind your man -- or woman, in this Times star columnist's case. This wussy editorial behavior came after some Hillary Clinton...
Jon Soltz | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
I've been running VoteVets.org for a couple of years now. In 2006 and in 2008, we've endorsed a number of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for Congress. It's still a story that the press is largely interested in, and when they call me to talk about it, I always -- always...
Lionel Beehner | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
For the love of cheap gas, shut up, already. Let's stop with this nonsense about us or the Israelis launching a preemptive strike against Iran. Every time Seymour Hersh fires up his typewriter -- warning the world that an invasion of Iran is imminent -- the price of oil inches...
Dave Zirin | Posted July 3, 2008 | Entertainment
Kevin Durant, we hardly knew ya. Goodbye Slick Watts. Farewell Gary Payton. And Tom Chambers' mullet can find somewhere else to call home. Two contemptible men named Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon -- who in their spare time spend millions of dollars sponsoring anti-gay referendums -- have moved the Seattle...
Lee Camp | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
Ron Galloway | Posted July 3, 2008 | Business
On March 17th I wrote a post for the HuffPo called "Netflix Death Watch" in which I claimed that slippage in customer service would cause problems for the company. On that date their stock was $32. It ran to $40 that month, and now hovers in the mid-$20's. Markets...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted July 3, 2008 | Business
Once a year there is a remarkable gathering of people in Aspen from all disciplines in life and an occasional interloper. Leaders in Academia, Politics, Business, the Arts, and Science. The conversations, seminars, and lectures are pretty heady in a rarefied yet pointed and pragmatic way. It...
Max Blumenthal | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics
On June 10, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama convened a meeting in a law office in downtown Chicago with a wide array of about thirty evangelical leaders, in an unprecedented effort to win their support. Obama insisted that the meeting remain entirely off the record, forbidding participants from...
David Misch | Posted July 2, 2008 | Politics
News that the CIA based its "enhanced" interrogation techniques on torture inflicted on our servicemen by the Chinese during the Korean War brings dishonor and shame to our nation. It's one thing to use Chinese toys to get our children's lead-paint intake up to FDA standards but should we really...
Lane Hudson | Posted July 2, 2008 | Politics
Darcy Burner is my favorite Congressional candidate. She narrowly lost to incumbent Dave Reichert in Washington's 8th District in 2006. She's never stopped fighting and is running a superb campaign this cycle. She's a true progressive and not afraid to stand up for the things we hold dear. It's not...
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Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted July 3, 2008 | Politics