Stories by Arianna Huffington
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Bush has turned the White House into a veritable full service fueling station for Big Oil. And we're the ones being forced to pick up the tab.
Posted on May 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Kerry is in a unique position to complete Kennedy's unfinished mission of ending a misguided war, returning real compassion to our domestic agenda, and bringing us together as a nation.
Posted on May 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Rumsfeld claims he was 'blindsided' by the photos. But he wasn’t blindsided, merely blind to the devastating impact the pictures would have once they became public.
Posted on May 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The guiding principle behind George Bush's Democracy is a deep mistrust of the American people and an undying faith in the ability of 'the elites' to decide what is best for America.
Posted on May 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
In this excerpt from her new book, Huffington calls for a clear, broad and accessible moral vision that answers the fundamental question: What sort of America do we want to live in?
Posted on Apr 12, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Yes, when it comes to the blogosphere, I'm a regular cyberslut. And I don't care who knows it.
Posted on Apr 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Mercury pollution, thanks to the chemical industry, is invading our waters -- and therefore invading our bodies. Meanwhile, the Bush administration is clearly intent on subverting the process by which emissions standards are set.
Posted on Mar 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Let's have two GDPs. One based on the current model, which would reflect corporate profits. And another that would factor in such things as joblessness and housing costs.
Posted on Mar 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush backs a bill that shields reckless gun dealers and gun makers from lawsuits, denying the victims of gun crimes their day in court.
Posted on Mar 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A report by the Pentagon sounds the alarm on an environmental Armageddon, but the president isn't listening.
Posted on Feb 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
While the White House is cutting back on its housing budget, veterans' benefits, and health care, it's opening up the coffers to make sure you have a harder time downloading the Paris Hilton sexcapade on the Net.
Posted on Feb 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Taking a page from Dean's playbook, Kerry needs to become the pied piper of the millions who have stopped believing that politics is the way to make a difference in the world.
Posted on Feb 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
GOP inner circles are buzzing with the rumor that President Bush is planning to drop Dick Cheney from his re-election ticket and replace him with 9/11 action hero Rudy Giuliani.
Posted on Feb 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The other doctor in the house of Dean -- Judy Steinberg Dean -- speaks not from a set of pre-packaged talking points, but from her heart.
Posted on Jan 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Helping married couples stay together is not a job for the Federal government -- at least not a government that is faced with far more pressing problems than what to do when he wants to watch football and she wants to cuddle.
Posted on Jan 21, 2004, Source: AlterNet
To discredit Paul O'Neill and his recent revelations about the Bush White House, the administration is trying hard to paint him as a disgruntled former employee.
Posted on Jan 14, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The folks besmirching Howard Dean's Election Day viability are the very people who have driven the Democratic Party into irrelevance.
Posted on Jan 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
These fed-up Bush officials so disagreed with administration policies that they preferred the uncertainty of the unemployment line to toeing the party line.
Posted on Dec 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Arianna's not just against Arnold, the Recall and Prop 54: she has also introduced an initiative to clean up the mess in Sacramento.
Posted on Oct 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Corporations are currently turning over 30 percent less of their profits to the taxman than they did 20 years ago, while state governments face the biggest fiscal crisis since the Great Depression.
Posted on Jul 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Yellowcake-gate is much more than a dirty trick played on the American public. It's about the Bush administration's pattern of deception as it shoved this country into a preemptive war.
Posted on Jul 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Revelations about the Misstatement of the Union fiasco are threatening to bring back the old notion of W as a bumbling, detached figurehead-in-chief.
Posted on Jul 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The recall of Gov. Gray Davis has so rattled the political landscape in California that it has the state's political establishment running scared.
Posted on Jul 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Bush’s latest rationale for invading Iraq raises the question: What about the Congo?
Posted on Jul 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The dawn of the 21st Century has brought a renewed fervor for social activism, as well as proof that groups of committed individuals -- even small groups -- can make a huge difference in the world.
Posted on Jun 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Hey, why let the facts get in the way of a perfectly good war?
Posted on Jun 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Imagine the journal of Karl Rove -- the man his biographer dubbed "the most powerful unelected person in America".
Posted on Jun 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The elimination of a promised child tax credit for almost 12 million of America's poorest children shows the massive disconnect between the people and political leaders.
Posted on Jun 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The motto for the whole Democratic Party: "Vote for us -- we kinda, sorta disagree."
Posted on May 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Maybe Karl Rove has moved his office into the "Matrix." Maybe Laurence Fishburne is auditioning for Ari Fleischer's job. Maybe it's all just a bad dream: "The White House Reloaded."
Posted on May 21, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Would breaking the glass ceiling for good change much in corporate America?
Posted on May 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Could the president's robust post-war job approval be as fleeting as the odd success of the Macarena?
Posted on May 8, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Now that the war in Iraq has been declared officially over, can the media please put aside their preoccupation with Scott Peterson's new hairstyle and focus their attention on the sputtering U.S. economy?
Posted on Apr 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Sneaking a peek through the blackout curtains the Bush administration has used to cloak the awarding of contracts to rebuild Iraq is like catching a glimpse of a very special incest episode of "ElimiDate."
Posted on Apr 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Bible tells us that pride goeth before the fall. In Iraq, it cameth right after it.
Posted on Apr 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A judge and special prosecutor agreed to throw out every last conviction stemming from the now notorious Tulia drug sting. Is this the end of be bucks-for-busts policing?
Posted on Apr 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A quick glance at last week's papers reveals that it's monkey business as usual on Wall Street. It's time to round up these repeat offenders.
Posted on Apr 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Today's new breed of public servants prefers to cash in while still stalking the halls of power and deeply involved in the highest levels of creating public policy.
Posted on Mar 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The war has already been won. The conquering heroes are not generals in fatigues but CEOs in suits.
Posted on Mar 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The revolt against antipatriotic tax havens may be the spark that ignites a movement for basic fairness and economic justice.
Posted on Mar 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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