Stories by Arianna Huffington
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It's one thing for credit card companies to exact their pound of flesh even as their profits soar. But shouldn't we hold our elected officials to a higher standard?
Posted on Mar 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
I have seen the future of progressive leadership in America, and its name is Andy Stern.
Posted on Mar 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Fire up those TiVos, disinformation fans; Rummy TV is coming soon to a flat screen near you. "If you hate the truth, you'll love DoD TV!"
Posted on Feb 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Michael Eisner is the Disneyland doppelganger of Arnold Schwarzenegger – both men forge personal bonds with others, then turn around and stab them in the the back.
Posted on Feb 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
By even the most charitable standard, the effort to rebuild Iraq has been an unmitigated disaster – it's a cornucopia of waste, fraud, cronyism, secret no-bid contracts and profiteering cloaked in patriotism.
Posted on Feb 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Iraqi election's Kodak moment, however moving, should not be allowed to erase all that came before it, leaving us unprepared for all that may come after it.
Posted on Feb 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In a world where politics and entertainment are almost inseparable, why not offer some awards to the politicos, too?
Posted on Jan 26, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Democrats should do everything in their admittedly diminished power to try to place some conditions before they vote for another $80 to $100 billion in supplemental funding for the war in Iraq.
Posted on Jan 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The evidence is overwhelming. Everywhere you look, it's IOUs passed on to future generations: Record federal debt. Record foreign debt. Record budget deficits. Record trade deficits.
Posted on Jan 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It turns out there was just too much gunk clogging up my internal hard drive to get rid of it all with a single cleansing.
Posted on Jan 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It was a year full of memorable events, but here are some worth forgetting.
Posted on Dec 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The plan to do away with judicial filibusters is an out-and-out power grab by the president and his Congressional accomplices.
Posted on Dec 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The time has come to stop being cowed by accusations that criticizing the war is the same as criticizing the troops and to start speaking the truth.
Posted on Dec 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Anyone raising the idea that the party needs to "move to the middle" should immediately be escorted out of the building.
Posted on Dec 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The reclamation project doesn't have to be a long one for the Democratic Party – we need merely to look at recent political history.
Posted on Dec 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
If the Democratic Party is serious about reclaiming the moral values high ground, it needs to take a long hard look in the medicine chest mirror.
Posted on Nov 24, 2004, Source: AlterNet
How the Kerry campaign was run into the ground by the pollsters, the strategists, the consultants – and the Clintonistas.
Posted on Nov 12, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It seems like everyone with a (D) after his or her name is suddenly seeing the moral values light.
Posted on Nov 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Democrats have a winning message. They just have to trust it enough to deliver it.
Posted on Nov 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
George W. is truly corrupting faith and dragging it into the political gutter.
Posted on Oct 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
All indications point to a radical turnaround in young voter turnout in the coming election – a turnaround fueled by a force more powerful than all the electoral hurdles placed in young people's way.
Posted on Oct 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Call it ludicrous, but the most important election of our lifetime is coming down to who can best pacify the electorate's inner baby.
Posted on Oct 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Despite mounting evidence that poll results can't be trusted, pundits and politicians continue to treat them with a reverence ancient Romans reserved for chicken entrails.
Posted on Oct 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Bush and the GOP have taken their bible-thumping ways to a whole new level: now they're using the Good Book to try and bash in the skulls of their opponents.
Posted on Sep 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Will the world's most exclusive club get a much needed infusion of new blood?
Posted on Sep 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
This Howler has to come in John Kerry's voice – and the message has to be pounded, Rove-style, day after day, week after week, until it sinks in.
Posted on Sep 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The storyline of this campain is really about heroes and villains; if Kerry continues to tell the story of the Other America, he will be the hero.
Posted on Sep 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The word is that after a summer of substance-free campaign stumping, the president is ready to tangle with "the vision thing" and roll out his second term plans for America.
Posted on Aug 31, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to a tidal wave of polls, focus groups, Powerpoint presentations, slideshows, studies, and laboratory dissections, we now know more about undecided voters than we do about almost anyone else involved in the 2004 campaign – including the candidates.
Posted on Aug 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Levin was a celebrated columnist for the London Times, an intellectual with an encyclopedic knowledge of music.
Posted on Aug 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
McGreevey resigned on the same day that the California Supreme Court annulled the state's 4000 same-sex marriages, raising the question: What if the world were a more welcoming place?
Posted on Aug 14, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Kerry's put the kibosh on bashing Bush, but can he do anything about the outbreak of hotel envy?
Posted on Jul 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
When it comes to spicing up the political dessert tray, Teresa Heinz Kerry is one of the most flavorful and compelling public figures to hit the national stage in decades. Why are the media out to get her?
Posted on Jul 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Poking around in the presidential psyche explains how our country got itself into an intractable war, the loss of allies and international goodwill and a half-trillion-dollar deficit.
Posted on Jul 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Five reasons why John Edwards is the perfect choice – and will leave Dick Cheney dropping the F-bomb.
Posted on Jul 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
What Kerry must do is give the Democratic Party – and American politics in general – an extreme political makeover.
Posted on Jul 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
NRA makes outrageous efforts to pressure Congress into allowing the federal ban on assault weapons to expire.
Posted on Jun 24, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The rising cost of higher-education has morphed the American Dream into the Dystopian Nightmare.
Posted on Jun 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Once all the eulogizing for Reagan is over, some powerful lessons will remain for the November election.
Posted on Jun 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
'Henry V' contains far more truth about our present situation than anything coming out of the White House or the Pentagon.
Posted on Jun 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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